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Work Sharing, Overt...
Work Sharing, Overtime and Shiftwork
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- Calmfors, Lars (författare)
- Stockholms universitet,Institutet för internationell ekonomi
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- Hoel, Michael (författare)
- Institute of Economics, University of Oslo
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- Stockholm : IIES, 1985
- Engelska 42 s.
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Serie: Seminar Paper / Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University, 0347-8769 ; 336
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Abstract
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- The paper analyzes the employment effects of reduced working time when firms' endogenous responses of overtime and shoftwork are considered. The paper distinguishes between Keynesian and classical regimes as well as between interior and corner solution. The main conclusion is that it is only in very simple models that employment increases unambiguously. Under plausible assumptions, a reduction of working time is quite likely to be counterproductive as an employment-promoting measure. The reason is that relative factor costs or relative productivities on the margin are affected in such a way that firms substitute overtime and shiftwork for employment.
Ämnesord
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Nationalekonomi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Economics (hsv//eng)
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- Economics
- Nationalekonomi
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