profit function rationalizing consumption, labor supply and savings is specified, estimated and used to test commonly … maintained separability hypotheses. Both consumption- labor and time separability are rejected. Cross-price Frisch elasticities … are found not to equal zero and this in turns affects all estimates of consumption, labor supply and saving elasticities …

there is free circulation of labor, increasing returns to scale, and endogeneity of skills, this produces on the one hand …

level requires more skilled labor and thus workers to be trained and used efficiently in their organizational structure …

A key area of focus in the economic reform process and the design of a favorable business environment is labor market … five years since the beginning of Economic reforms, the new Labor Law was passed in July 2003. This is not the only … weakness of the labor market reform; more importantly is that the new law did not actually bring any significant changes that …

Worksharing is considered by many as a promising public policy to reduce unemployment. In this paper we present a … evidence for the proposition that worksharing would promote employment or reduce unemployment. In an appendix we present an …