Comparative Analysis

This volume is the second book based on comparative and comprehensive
data from the 2003 representative European Union Company survey of
Operating hours, Working times and Employment (EUCOWE) in France,
Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. This
publication complements and builds on the first book published in 2007 in
which the methodology and the descriptive national findings, as well as
some first comparative analytical results, of the EUCOWE project were
presented.1 In several of the countries studied the survey represented one of
the first dedicated studies on the operating time. The EUCOWE survey
was the first attempt to collect cross-national comparative data on operating
hours and opening times and as such represents an innovative source
of information of working patterns, establishment behaviour and competitiveness
in the EU.

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