The objective in this paperis to analyse the effect of a reduction in working time duration in a trade union model where Capital Operating Time occurs.

<i> Orario di lavoro e salari di efficienza in un modello di sviluppo dualistico </i> (di Antonio Garofalo, Concetto Paolo Vinci) - ABSTRACT: The objective of the present paper is that of explaining some dynamic behaviour of the Ital-ian economy considered as a dualistic system, by using a theoretical...

Purpose – How many hours per week should workers in the USA and Germany spend at their paying jobs? The present paper aims to address this question by constructing policymakers' reaction functions capable of modelling the optimal length of working time as a function of the relevant labour...

Purpose – This paper aims to introduce the contributions in this special issue on “Unemployment, innovation and R&D”, and provide a brief outline of the international conference organised by the Applied Econometrics Association on “Policies against Unemployment”....

The aim of this paper is to measure the effect on employment, and other key economic variables, of worksharing policies, minimum wage variations and some other measures of flexibility in a special framework, based on Holden (1988) and Moene (1988), where two different levels of negotiations for...

The aim of the paper is that of describing some of the recent economic events of our country through a theoretical two-sector scheme. We proceed by inserting explicitly human capital as a production factor and a labour augmenting productive structure. The unsuccessful expansion of the South has...