Reducing working hours: a general equilibrium analysis

An examination of the effects of restricting the weekly hours of workers in a heterogeneous-agent, general-equilibrium framework. The main findings are that restricting weekly hours increases employment substantially, but may also lead to large declines in wages, productivity, output, and consumption, and can increase the wage disparity between skilled and unskilled workers.

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Year of publication:	1998
Authors:	Fitzgerald, Terry J.
Institutions:	Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Subject:	Hours of labor \| Employment (Economic theory)

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working Paper.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Number 9801
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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