In this paper, we evaluate to what extent firms reorganized following the French mandatory working time reduction (WTR). For this purpose, we merge both French survey on Capital Operating Time and shiftwork (COT, 1989-2004) and administrative survey ofWTR agreements (1997-2003). Through the...

In this article, we document that the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Conference Board’s Total Economy Database (TED) have substantially revised their measures of hours worked over time. Relying on the data used by Rogerson (2006) and Ohanian et al....

We examine the timing of firms' operations in a formal model of labor demand. Merging a variety of data sets from Portugal from 1995-2004, we describe temporal patterns of firms' demand for labor and estimate production-functions and relative labor-demand equations. The results demonstrate the...