Physical work intensity and the split workday
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Universidad de Zaragoza
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ISSN: 1988-8767
Ano de publicación: 2015
Número: 767
Páxinas: 1-34
Tipo: Documento de traballo
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Resumo
This study uses a simple job-design model and the 2002-2003 Spanish Time Use Survey to establish the existence of a previously overlooked relationship between physical work intensity and the split workday. The theoretical model predicts that the incidence of working split shifts may increase with physical work intensity if and only if the degree of recovery allowed by the mid-workday break is directly proportional to the physical load of the work done. Occupation-specific estimates of energy expenditure are constructed for Spain which permit investigating empirically the determinants of the split workday and the length of the mid-workday break.