Hours of work have traditionally been treated as a homogeneous entity in the factor-demand literature. However, in practice, average hours are a composite of short-time, over-time and normal hou rs of work, each of which has both a length and an incidence dimensio n. This paper argues that the...

A number of hypotheses about the impact of country size on the medium-term growth process in developing countries are tested with the aid of a model of disequilibrium growth, estimated for a sample of forty-eight countries over the period 1975-85. Evidence about the stability of the model's...

This paper investigates the main determinants of skill shortages. It draws upon a major, new government survey of over 4,000 establishments, Skill Needs in Britain, 1990. It matches on additional information from other sources to account for local labor market types and occupational effects. The...