An empirical analysis of working-hours constraints in twenty-one countries

Review of Social Economy

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 209-242

  Sousa Poza, Alfonso ^a   Henneberger, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cross national analysis; Desired working time; Hours constraints; Working time

Indexed keywords

EID: 18644376362     PISSN: 00346764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00346760210146235     Document Type: Review

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