In this paper we study the implications of taxing overtime work in order to reduce the workweek. To this purpose we … study the roles played by team work, commuting costs and idiosyncratic output risk in determining the choice of the workweek … implements the desired reduction of the workweek from 40 to 35 hours (12.5%). We also find that this tax change increases …

Legally mandated reductions in the workweek can be either a constraint on individuals' choice or a tool to coordinate … individuals' preferences for lower work hours. We confront these two hypotheses by studying the consequences of the workweek …

workers: women but not men may have benefited from coordination to a shorter workweek, and there is also evidence of negative …Workweek reduction laws may be beneficial if market interactions do not fully take into account the preferences … reflected in declining secular trends in working hours. The most recent law in France shortened the workweek from 39 to 35 hours …

choice of the workweek. To obtain reliable estimates, I calibrate the model to the substitutability between the workweek and … taxing overtime but at a lower cost in terms of output, productivity, wages and welfare. The wage subsidy that achieves the …

-state status quo, where a forty-hour workweek is imposed and no flexibility is allowed, and the steady-state of economies with a …

the extent to which firms will be able to choose the workweek when subject to demand shocks. The model is calibrated so … Spanish economy. The author compares the status quo steady-state, where a 40 hour workweek is imposed and no flexibility is …

-state status quo, where a forty-hour workweek is imposed and no flexibility is allowed, and the steady-state of economies with a …

-state status quo, where a forty-hour workweek is imposed and no flexibility is allowed, and the steady-state of economies with a …

the extent to which firms will be able to choose the workweek when subject to demand shocks. The model is calibrated so … Spanish economy. The author compares the status quo steady-state, where a 40 hour workweek is imposed and no flexibility is …