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Work-sharing and tensions in production factors

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  • M. LECLAIR

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From 1997 to 2000, French growth came with increasing tensions in production factors. This fact is usual during economic growth. Nevertheless, work-sharing policy that was applied in France during the same period may have increased constraints on production. We used a French firm panel data, a quarterly business survey of industrial firms, between 1995 and 2001 and compared 35-hour firms and firms which didnt share work. We found that 35-hour firms had more short-term hiring problems and more short-term production bottleneck than similar firms which didnt share work. But there are no longterm differences between them. Moreover, hiring problems are more important when 35-hour firms try to hire skilled workers. However, these higher tensions are not an evidence that work-sharing policy reduced growth. They could be also an indication that 35-hour firms hired more.

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  • M. Leclair, 2002. "Work-sharing and tensions in production factors," Documents de Travail de l'Insee - INSEE Working Papers g2002-13, Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques.
    • Handle: RePEc:nse:doctra:g2002-13
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    Keywords

    Work sharing; production factors; business survey;
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    JEL classification:

    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
    • J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
    • L23 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Organization of Production
    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models

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