This paper evaluates the implications for employment, productivity and wages of allowing for more flexibility in weekly … in productivity. In the work sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower … employment and generates a substantial increase in productivity (2.6%) by allowing firms to completely adapt to changing economic …

This paper is motivated by a set of cross-country observations on labor productivity growth among industrial countries … countries has decreased substantially while the negative effect of a country's own employment growth (or labor force growth) on … labor productivity has increased dramatically. The main contribution of the paper is to show how these observations are …

This paper is motivated by a set of cross-country observations on labor productivity growth among industrial countries … countries has decreased substantially while the negative effect of a country's own employment growth (or labor force growth) on … labor productivity has increased dramatically. The main contribution of the paper is to show how these observations are …