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Showing 1 to 20 of 143 for “"working hours"”.
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Association of working hours with metabolic syndrome among industry workers
… association between metabolic syndrome and the working hours of industrial workers. According to the data of the OECD, South Korea has recorded the highest working hours. Long working hours and to see the relevance of the metabolic syndrome, 8 where the medical examination results and the data …
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Long Working Hours, Happiness, and Quality of Democracy With the Case Studies of Japan and Denmark
… thesis aims to reveal the hypothesis that long working hour reduce people’s happiness and undermine democracy. For achieving this goal, this study clarifies the relationship between long working hours, happiness, and political engagement. Moreover, in order to seek the way to increase social …
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A Franco-British comparison of patterns of working hours in large-scale grocery retailing, with specific reference to part-time work
In this thesis patterns of working hours in large-scale grocery retailing in Britain and France are compared. The research is carried out using cross-national comparative methodology, and the analysis is based on information derived from secondary sources and empirical research in large-scale …
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Employment adjustment in steel industry: The U.S. and Japan compared
… Shock of 1973, Japanese steel companies reduced working hours, but not employment. In the 1980s, however, they adopted a new policy: reduction of both employment and working hours. U.S. steel companies reduced both employment and working hours in the 1970s. They changed their adjustment policy in …
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Impact of regulation on trucking carrier prices and capacity
… mandate requires truck drivers to record their working hours in a specified electronic device instead of a pen and paper method. This thesis utilizes the change in average truck driver working hours, cost of ELD equipment and distance from origin to destination of truck loads to determine the …
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Family Income, Maternal Marital Status, Maternal Employment, and the Development of Overweight and Obesity During Childhood.
… incomes above the poverty line; longer maternal working hours at child's 54 months of age was associated with an increased risk of overweight and obesity at child's third grade. In conclusion, this study confirms that family poverty status and maternal working hours are associated with child's …
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The added worker effect in South Africa
… probability of employment and average working hours respond to the recently unanticipated job loss of their partners in South Africa. It also considers the effect of partners job loss on married women’s preference to work and the probability that they work more hours from the previous …
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Solving security staff scheduling by using genetic algorithm
… approaches. However, in the new era, flexible working hours is the latest trend compared with the traditional way, fixed working hours. Therefore, in this research, a flexible shift scheduling is studied because the scheduling problem should be humanized to follow the trend. But, it is a …
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Investigating the Sleep-Burnout Connection and Its Impact on Health-Related Quality of Life Among Medical Registrars at a University in South Africa
… healthcare, yet their routine exposure to long working hours, high patient loads, and academic pressures places them at risk for sleep disturbance, burnout, and reduced health-related quality of life. Despite growing evidence linking these factors internationally, limited data exist for South …
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Caracterização da comunidade quilombola pesqueira do município de Cachoeira: uma análise sobre aspectos sociodemográfico, saúde e trabalho, Bahia, Brasil
… artisanal fishing is associated with precarious working conditions, long working hours and the use of tools of technical simplicity. In addition, these workers are exposed to several risks in their everyday life that potentiate the emergence of occupational diseases. Objective: To identify and …
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Women artisanal miners in the Gold Mining industry of Bondo Sub-County, Western Kenya and their navigation of their productive and reproductive labour during the COVID-19 pandemic during 2020
… literature on the subject indicates reduced working hours and income, restricted access to essential resources, heightened gender- based violence, and an increased burden of unpaid reproductive labour for women due to COVID-19 related measures. This study explored the challenges faced by …
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Working patterns and food behaviour within the context of family life.
… life, particularly the effect that current working patterns may have on food behaviour (food provision, food consumption and eating patterns) within the home. Increased female employment and long working hours may affect family functioning though little has been done to model any …
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Implementation of New Childcare Policies in New Orleans
The high number of working parents in the U.S. means that there are millions of child in need to care during working hours. Research shows that the quality of this care is of high importance in a child's development, both in the short-term and the long-term. States have used a variety of policy …
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A Feasibility Study of Implementing the Rearranged Work Week at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska
… work week is defined as a reallocation of working hours over a four day period which may include flexible starting times during the day and a reduction of total hours in a week.|The research and analysis will begin with a review of the history of the work week followed by a discussion of …
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A Fair Day's Wages: Liberty, Legality, and Liability Among Denver's Day Laborers
… gathering points provide increased control over working hours and employee-employer relationships when compared to traditional wage labor. Still, recent legislation and policies around irregular migration has forced large numbers of workers who may have benefited from the stability of full-time …
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The impact of after-school childcare arrangements on the developmental outcomes of low-income children and the labor conditions of their working mothers
While working mothers with school-aged children make up 78.6% labor force, finding suitable, available, affordable childcare is still significant challenge. Even though after-school programs (hereafter ASPs) and other types of childcare arrangements have been implemented, childcare for school-aged …
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'n Waarderingsperspektief van ouers se betrokkenheid by hul kinders se leerproses in 'n landelike omgewing
… ideals for their children. Regardless of long working hours they still try their best to stay involved. The parents want the best for their children and nurture better jobs for their children.
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Understanding time use, stress, and recovery among medical resident
… medical residents report (on average) longer working hours, less leisure time, and shorter amounts of sleep when compared with the average working American. A detailed assessment of time usage showed that medical residents do not participate in many resource replenishing activities while at …
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Family-friendliness of working time provisions in Australian enterprise agreements
… (i) what evidence is there of changes to working time arrangements within selected agreements that purport to be family-friendly; and (ii) have these changes been consistent with the promotion of a family-friendly workplace? Eleven agreements that were reported by the Department of …
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Predicting Non-Work Social Media Use on the basis of Burnout, Work Engagement, and the Fear of Missing Out
… of non-work-related sites during formal working hours), and is attracting increased research attention, especially due to the ever-increasing amount of active social media users worldwide. The study is underpinned by the job demands-resources (JD-R) theory and used a cross-sectional, …
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