Statistics on working time arrangements based on time-use survey data (2003), Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 3, by A. S. Harvey, J. Gershuny, K. Fisher and A. Akbari
This study focuses on one important alternative instrument for measuring today's working time arrangements: time-use or "time diary" studies, which provide a detailed breakdown of working time hour-by-hour and day-by-day. It uses microdata obtained from time-use studies to create a classification of working time arrangements and then analyses how daily work patterns are organized in four countries: Canada, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. The results of the study offer some important insights into the potential advantages and disadvantages of time-use data for obtaining a better understanding of those working time arrangements which are emerging. publication cover