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Work Sharing, Employment and Shiftwork

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Calmfors, Lars
Hoel, Michael
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Increased shiftwork is often discussed in connection with reductions of working time in order to promote work sharing. This paper provides a model in which shiftwork responds endogenously. It is shown that there is no presumption that shiftwork will respond in such a way as to guarantee a positive employment effect. Relative factor costs will be affected in such a way that firms tend to substitute capital services in the form of shiftwork for employment at the same time as there may be negative scale effects. The presumption is that a reduction of working time will have negative employment effects. Copyright 1989 by Royal Economic Society.

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Volume (Year): 41 (1989)
Issue (Month): 4 (October)
Pages: 758-73
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  1. Terry J. Fitzgerald, 1998. "Reducing working hours: a general equilibrium analysis," Working Paper 9801, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. [Downloadable!]
  2. Thomas Moutos & William Scarth, 2000. "Work-Sharing: an Efficiency-Wage Analysis," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich. [Downloadable!]
  3. Yu-Fu Chen & Michael Funke, 2004. "Working Time and Employment under Uncertainty," Quantitative Macroeconomics Working Papers 20409, Hamburg University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Giannelli, Gianna C. & Braschi, Cristina, 2002. "Reducing Hours of Work: Does Overtime Act as a Brake Upon Employment Growth? An Analysis by Gender for the Case of Italy," IZA Discussion Papers 557, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
  5. Antonio García Sánchez & María del Mar Vázquez Méndez, 2005. "The timing of work in a general equilibrium model with shiftwork," Investigaciones Economicas, Fundación SEPI, vol. 29(1), pages 149-179, January. [Downloadable!]
  6. Robert Dixon & John Freebairn, 2007. "Hours of Work: A Demand Perspective," Department of Economics - Working Papers Series 1022, The University of Melbourne. [Downloadable!]
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