En tiempos de crisis económicas, con altas tasas de paro, no debemos desconsiderar ninguna política susceptible de crear empleo. La reducción de la jornada laboral es una de ellas. La aplicación de cualquier política puede tener consecuencias distintas si se aplica en contextos diferentes....

This paper introduces endogenous time distribution between work and leisure into a two-sector growth model. We differ from the traditional growth theory in that we introduce a novel economic mechanism to determine consumers' decision on time distribution, consumption and saving. The utility...

It has been argued that concave models exhibit less ‘endogeneity of growth’ than models with increasing returns to scale. Here we study a simple model of factor saving technological improvement in a concave framework. Capital can be used either to reproduce itself, or, at some additional...