Hours of work have traditionally been treated as a homogeneous entity in the factor-demand literature. However, in practice, average hours are a composite of short-time, over-time and normal hou rs of work, each of which has both a length and an incidence dimensio n. This paper argues that the...

A number of hypotheses about the impact of country size on the medium-term growth process in developing countries are tested with the aid of a model of disequilibrium growth, estimated for a sample of forty-eight countries over the period 1975-85. Evidence about the stability of the model's...