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Investigating scheduling of work: a two-stage optimal matching analysis of workdays and workweeks
Article first published online: 4 NOV 2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2010.00670.x
© 2010 Royal Statistical Society
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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society)
Volume 174, Issue 2, pages 349–368, April 2011
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Lesnard, L. and Kan, M. Y. (2011), Investigating scheduling of work: a two-stage optimal matching analysis of workdays and workweeks. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 174: 349–368. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2010.00670.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 14 MAR 2011
- Article first published online: 4 NOV 2010
- [Received September 2009, Final revision July 2010]
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Keywords:
- Cost;
- Optimal matching;
- Time use;
- Two-stage optimal matching;
- Work schedule;
- Work time
Summary. We study the scheduling of work by using optimal matching analysis. We show that optimal matching can be adapted to the number of periodicities and theoretical concerns of the topic by adjusting its costs and parameters. Optimal matching is applied at two stages to define workdays and workweeks at the first and second stage respectively. There were five types of workdays and seven types of workweeks in the UK between 2000 and 2001. Standard workdays represented just over a half of workdays and standard workweeks constituted one in four workweeks. There were three types of part-time workweeks.