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Working time regulation, unequal lifetimes and fairness

Leroux, Marie-Louise; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2016

-best egalitarian argument for age-dependent working time regulation, which can make the short-lived better off and reduce inequalities … uniform working time reductions, when uncompensated (i.e. constant hourly wage), can reduce inequalities in realized lifetime …-lived better off, but at the cost of raising inequalities. Then, we characterize the ex post egalitarian optimum, where the …

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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor : what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?

Wolf, Elke - 2000

Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this back-of-the-envelope calculation overestimates the effect of loosening hours constraints, because even in a very flexible labor market there will exist hours restrictions for...

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Offshoring and working hours adjustments in a within-firm labor market

Endoh, Masahiro - 2019

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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor : what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?

Wolf, Elke - 2000

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Life expectancy, labor supply, and long-run growth : reconciling theory and evidence

Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - 2012

-run economic development. -- longevity ; active life expectancy ; education ; hours worked ; economic growth. …

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Older workers and working time

Bell, David N. F.; Rutherford, Alasdair C. - 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...

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"How many hours would you want to work a week?" : job quality and the omitted variables bias in labour supply models

Steiber, Nadia - 2008 - This version: May 2008

This paper sets out to provide an understanding of how individuals form their preferences over the extent of their paid work involvement - their working time preferences - in different work environments and societal contexts. The main objective of the empirical analysis is to investigate how...

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