Employees' and employers' preferences for working time reduction and working time differentiation: A study of the 36-hour working week in the Dutch banking sector

Acta Sociologica

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 69-82

  Tijdens, Kea G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bureaucracy; Collective bargaining; Employee attitudes; Increase in productivity; Large scale survey; Maximizing income; Part time employee; Work sharing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037357021     PISSN: 00016993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0001699303046001005     Document Type: Article

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