Purpose – How many hours per week should workers in the USA and Germany spend at their paying jobs? The present paper aims to address this question by constructing policymakers' reaction functions capable of modelling the optimal length of working time as a function of the relevant labour...

Purpose – How many hours per week should workers in the USA and Germany spend at their paying jobs? The present paper aims to address this question by constructing policymakers' reaction functions capable of modelling the optimal length of working time as a function of the relevant labour...

<i> Orario di lavoro e salari di efficienza in un modello di sviluppo dualistico </i> (di Antonio Garofalo, Concetto Paolo Vinci) - ABSTRACT: The objective of the present paper is that of explaining some dynamic behaviour of the Ital-ian economy considered as a dualistic system, by using a theoretical...

The objective in this paperis to analyse the effect of a reduction in working time duration in a trade union model where Capital Operating Time occurs.