Operating hours and working times : a survey of capacity utilisation and employment in the European union

The book presents the descriptive findings and analytical results from the recent representative European Union Company survey of Operating hours, Working times and Employment (EUCOWE) in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. The EUCOWE-project is the first representative and standardised European company survey which covers all categories of firm size and all sectors of the economy. Several relevant questions are addressed on the basis of the survey, such as: What are the operating hours of the different European countries that form the six country studies of this research? What are the differences between sectors of activities and establishment sizes? By means of what type of working-time organisation are those operating hours accomplished? What is the relationship between operating hours and employment? The book is the most comprehensive analysis on Operating Hours, Capacity Utilisation, Working Times and Employment in the European Union available.

Lei Delsen and Derek Bosworth and Hermann Gross and Rafael Munoz de Bustillo y LlorenteFrank Bauer and Hermann Gross and Georg SieglenFrank Bauer and Hermann Gross and Rafael Munoz de Bustillo y Llorente and Enrique Fernandez Macias and Georg SieglenGilbert Cette and Yusuf Kocoglu and Arnaud SylvainFrank Bauer and Hermann Gross and Steffen Lehndorff and Sebastian Schief and Georg SieglenLei Delsen and Jeroen SmitsAlberto Castro and Jose M. VarejaoRafael Munoz de Bustillo y Llorente and Enrique Fernandez MaciasMark Smith and Derek Bosworth and Marilyn Carroll

1 The Value Added of Representative Comparative EU Data on Operating Hours, Working Times, Capacity Utilisation and Employment	p. 1
2 Methodology of the EUCOWE Project	p. 21
3 Cross-country Comparison of Operating Hours, Capacity Utilisation, Working Times and Employment	p. 41
4 Operating Hours, Working Times and Employment in France	p. 73
5 Operating Hours, Working Times and Employment in Germany	p. 95
6 Operating Hours, Working Times and Employment in the Netherlands	p. 121
7 Operating Hours, Working Times and Employment in Portugal	p. 147
8 Operating Hours, Working Times and Employment in Spain	p. 169
9 Operating Hours, Working Times and Employment in the UK	p. 197
List of Tables	p. 225
List of Figures	p. 229
Author Index	p. 231
Subject Index	p. 233
Appendix EUCOWE Questionnaire	p. 237
About the Contributors	p. 247

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