The definition, classification and measurement of working time arrangements (2003), Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 4, by D. Bell and P. Elias
This study explores how working time arrangements are changing, highlighting the limited nature of the information on working time that is available from national labour force surveys and establishment-based surveys. It then considers how those innovative working time arrangements that are emerging, such as annual hours contracts, can be organized and classified conceptually. Finally, the study examines how four countries are attempting to measure working time arrangements in their official statistics: Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States. The result is a wealth of practical information regarding how statistical systems might be altered to facilitate the measurement of today's more flexible working time arrangements. publication cover