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-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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Standard hours, a major component of total work hours, vary considerably across Europe. Many countries lowered their standard work hours during the 1980s and 1990s, attempting to boost employment by splitting up a fixed number of worker-hours among more workers. Germany has seen a partial...
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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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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 exible labor market there will exist hours restrictions for...
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