can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we consider the … impact of uncertainty and real options on the decision of working time, i.e. we examines the determinants of employment and …

To account for employment evolutions at the macro-economic level, we propose a modelling where employment is explained … in a multivariate framework for three sets of sectors. We get a relationship in which employment rises with growth and … permits to measure retrospectively the contributions of each of the variables to employment inflections since the mid-eighties …

We study three necessary conditions for work sharing to increase employment. First, there must exist a negative long …-run relation between working time and employment. Second, hours per worker must be exogenous with respect to wages and employment …. Third, policy makers must be able to influence actual hours per worker. We formulate a theoretical model for employment …

with results from the research on the German employment performance in the Great Recession which attributed part of the … employment success to the widespread use of instruments of internal flexibility. Our results confirm that generally, the …

per week. We found a corresponding increase in part-time employment of 2 percentage points for all minimum wage workers …

Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this …

employment levels during recessions. However, they can create inefficiency in the labor market, and might limit labor market …