More hours, more jobs? The employment effects of longer working hours

Substituting Working Hours with Employment :

The physiotherapy workforce is ageing, becoming more masculinised, and is working longer hours: a demographic study.

QUESTION Is the physiotherapy workforce significantly older in 2001 than 1986? What is the cumulative attrition of the workforce to 2001 and what is the predicted attrition by 2026? Is the workforce becoming masculinised? Is the workforce working longer hours? DESIGN Observational study using Australian Bureau of Statistics census data from 1986 to 2001 to predict workforce characteristics in...

Employment and Hours of Work

This paper develops a dynamic model of the labor market in which the degree of substitution between employment and hours of work is determined as part of a search equilibrium. Each firm chooses the demand for working hours and the number of vacancies, and the hourly wage rate is determined by Nash bargaining. A firm increases the demand for hours as recruitment becomes more costly. Labor market...

Evaluation of reasons for staying and waiting for more than 24 hours in the emergency ward of Imam Hossein hospital

Objective: Standardization of hospital emergency units is a major goal in developed countries to decrease the duration of patients stay in these units. The present study was undertaken to evaluate the prevalence of long-term staying in an emergency ward. Methods: In the present 2-month cross-sectional study, patients referring to the emergency ward of Imam Hos...

How to Find More Hours in the Day.

Category Postdoctoral Fellow Graduate/Medical Student Undergraduate First place John Kanady (UA-Tuc) Uzma Tahir (NAU) Brittney McCormick (UA-Phx) Second place Manal Zein-Hammoud (UA-Phx) Maura Cotter (UA-Tuc) Julian Wagner (ASU) Third place Cheng-Yu Chen (UA-Tuc) Puneet Raman (UA-Phx) RussL Altabtabaee (MWU) Table 1. Abstract Awardees