Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Fouarge Didier 
Author-Name: Baaijens Christine 
Author-workplace-name: ROA rm
Title: Job Mobility and hours of work: the effect of Dutch legislation
Abstract: Previous research has pointed to the existence of hours constraints on the labour market: not all employees’ preferences with respect to the length of the working week seem to be fulfilled, and changes in the number of working hours often coincide with job mobility. In this paper, we test whether or not a recently introduced Dutch legislation providing employees with the right to adjust working hours within their job has reduced the correlation between changes in working hours and job mobility. We do this by implementing a difference-in-differences methodology to the job and hours mobility behaviour of Dutch workers prior and after the introduction of the new law. We find no evidence suggesting that this is indeed the case, regardless of gender.
Keywords: education, training and the labour market; 
Series: Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 2009
Number: 004
File-URL: http://digitalarchive.maastrichtuniversity.nl/fedora/objects/guid:7a429212-c98b-4536-ab59-e964df8f531f/datastreams/ASSET1/content
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Handle: RePEc:unm:umaror:2009004