' effects in the literature, by employment losses from process and organisational innovation and by general productivity …

on the working week, employment and productivity. A baseline model economy is calibrated to reproduce the cross … in productivity. In the work-sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower … increase in productivity (1.31%). Finally, the full flexibility scenario preserves employment and generates a substantial …

investigate this issue using microdata by the Bank of Italy. In Italy, the incidence of overtime work among male dependent workers … is relatively high. In particular, we seek to ascertain if, for Italy too, the fear that a reduction in working hours …