Dreger, Christian; Fuchs, Olaf; Kolb, Jurgen - In: The Journal of Economics 27 (2001) 2, pp. 69-81
This paper deals with the effect of a reduction of weekly working time on employment. Often working time reduction is proposed to stimulate employment. We investigate this hypothesis for West German industrial branches using annual data from 1960 to 1995. The analysis is carried out by the means...