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Work Sharing and Overtime

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Calmfors, Lars
Hoel, Michael
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This paper deals with the employment effects of reduced working time when firms' endogenous response of overtime is considered. The anal ysis distinguishes between fixed and profit-maximizing levels of outp ut as well as between interior and corner solutions. It is shown that under plausible assumptions, a reduction in working time is quite li kely to be counterproductive as an employment-promoting measure. Copyright 1988 by The editors of the Scandinavian Journal of Economics.

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Article provided by Blackwell Publishing in its journal Scandinavian Journal of Economics.

Volume (Year): 90 (1988)
Issue (Month): 1 ()
Pages: 45-62
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