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More Hours, More Jobs? The Employment Effects of Longer Working Hours
Andrews, Martyn J.; Gerner, Hans-Dieter; Schank, Thorsten; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
with theory, overtime plants showed a significant positive employment response, whilst for standard-time plants there is no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010553738
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A Primer on the 35-Hour in France, 1997–2007
Askenazy, Philippe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
France has experienced massive changes in its regulation of working time during the last decade. These changes generate natural experiments that may help to study a variety of issues in labor economics, including work sharing effect on job creation or productivity, labor relations or adaptation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762098
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The Use of Flexible Measures to Cope with Economic Crises in Germany and Brazil
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Pastore, José - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This study gives a comparative overview of labor market dynamics and institutional arrangements in Germany and Brazil with particular emphasis on industrial relations, wage setting, unemployment benefits, employment protection and vocational training. The paper shows that institutions determine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371884
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The Impact of Growth, Labour Cost and Working Time on Employment: Lessons from the French Experience
L’Horty, Yannick; Rault, Christophe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
To account for employment evolutions at the macro-economic level, we propose a modelling where employment is explained by added value, working time and real labour cost. Estimations using quarterly French macro-economic data are carried out in a multivariate framework for three sets of sectors....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703692
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Effort-Based Career Opportunities and Working Time
Bratti, Massimiliano; Staffolani, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
In this paper we describe the hypothesis of effort-based career opportunities as a situation in which profit maximizing firms create incentives for employees to work longer hours than the bargained ones, by making career prospects dependent on working hours. When effortbased career opportunities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822839
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Real Wages, Working Time, and the Great Depression: What Does Micro Evidence Tell Us?
Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, J. Elizabeth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
macroeconomic thought, is that real wages during the cycle containing the Great Depression are either acyclical or countercyclical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530643
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Older Workers and Working Time
Bell, David N.F.; Rutherford, Alasdair C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Contrary to much of the established literature, this paper finds that though many older workers would prefer to reduce their working hours (the overemployed), there is a significant group who would like to work longer hours (the underemployed). And contrary to the assumption that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686908
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The Detaxation of Overtime Hours: Lessons from the French Experiment
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
wages received for hours worked overtime. The goal of the policy was to increase the number of hours worked. This article …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804893
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Die Beseitigung von Arbeitszeithürden als Beitrag zur Lösung des Fachkräftemangels
Schneider, Hilmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Die Stellschraube Arbeitszeit ist der in der Fachdebatte am stärksten unterschätzte Ansatzpunkt, um den absehbaren …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884063
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Roma Women in Athenian Firms: Do They Face Wage Bias?
Drydakis, Nick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In the current study, we analyze the effect of having a Roma background on women's wages. By utilizing the Athens Area … Roma in low-paid jobs and employers' statistical motivations are also found to influence wages earned by Roma. This study … previous studies of Roma employment, and it could inspire new efforts to compare wages by Roma background. …
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