There is increasing concern that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic could
harm psychological health and exacerbate suicide risk. Here, based on month-level records …

In the usual difference in differences (DD), there is a control group that is never treated and a
treatment group that is treated at some time point. However, there are DD cases where the …

The authors investigate the adjustments in employment of regular and non-regular workers,
exploiting the exchange-rate fluctuation and heterogeneous dependence on international …

We summarize recent research on the wage and employment effects of minimum wage laws
in the United States and infer from non-US studies of hours laws the likely effects of …

In this paper, we exploit a panel of industry‐level data in European countries to study the
economic impact of national reductions in usual weekly working hours between 1995 and …

This article provides a first assessment of the causal impact of the 2018–2021 reform in
Korea meant to combat its long working‐hour culture. The reform consists of lowering the …

Exploiting heterogeneous variations in labour cost increases due to Japan's 2003 social
insurance premium reform as a natural experiment, we estimate the impacts of the increased …

Background In Japan, the number of suicides has increased since the coronavirus disease
(COVID-19) epidemic. However, only a few studies have examined the trends among …

How do legislative reductions in hours impact firms? In this paper, we use matched
employeremployee data to evaluate a policy reform in Portugal that unexpectedly reduced …

This paper examines how legislative reductions in working hours impact firms' employment,
output, and productivity. We exploit a Portuguese reform that reduced standard hours from …