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Maximum employee work-hour restrictions are implemented to reduce accidents. However, because they decrease the stock of work-hours available to employers, they may also have detrimental effects. A quasi-experiment suggests that pilot hours-of-service reforms, which decreased the number of...
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examine the effect of product market regulations on hours worked in a benchmark aggregate model of time allocation as well as … in a standard dynamic model of entry and exit. We find that product market regulations affect time devoted to market work … regulations are to affect aggregate market work in this model, the key driving force is the size of income transfers associated …
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a model, based on Burda and Weil (1999), which can rationalize potential public interest aspects of such regulations as …
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We examine the redistributive impact of working time regulations in an economy with unequal lifetimes. It is shown that …
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This paper explores empirically the economic validity of the relatively limited approach to the regulation of employment protection pursued in the UK over the last three decades and within the European Union more recently. It does so by comparing the UK's manufacturing labour productivity...
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What does the around-the-clock economic activity mean for workers’ health? Despite the fact that non-standard work accounts for an increasing share of the job opportunities, relatively little is known about the potential consequences for health and the existing evidence is ambiguous. In this...
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