Simmons, R.; Schank, Thorsten; Andrews, Martyn J. - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
Recent policy debate in Europe suggests that a shorter workweek will lead to more jobs (worksharing). We derive and estimate a model where the firm employs two types of worker, some working overtime, the rest standard hours. Worksharing is not always a prediction of the theory. Using German...