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Can overtime premium flexibility promote employment? : firm- and worker-level evidence from a labour law reform
Martins, Pedro S. - 2016
In 2012, in the midst of a recession, a labour law reform in Portugal allowed firms to reduce the overtime premium paid … firms using overtime in 2011 did reduce their overtime premiums in a manner consistent with the reform, in particular those … overtime usage, employment and sales following the reform. Overall, our results highlight the important but not exclusive role …
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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor : what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?
Wolf, Elke - 2000
Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this back-of-the-envelope calculation overestimates the effect of loosening hours constraints, because even in a very flexible labor market there will exist hours restrictions for...
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Loosening Hours Constraints on the Supply of Labor : What If Germans Had a Dutch Labor Market?
Wolf, Elke - 2008
Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this back-of-the-envelope calculation overestimates the effect of loosening hours constraints, because even in a very exible labor market there will exist hours restrictions for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014089251
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Zero-hours contracts in a frictional labor market
Dolado, Juan J.; Lalé, Etienne; Turon, Hélène - 2022
We propose a model to evaluate the U.K.’s zero-hours contract (ZHC) – a contract that exempts employers from the requirement to provide any minimum working hours, and allows workers to decline any workload. We find quantitatively mixed welfare effects of ZHCs. On one hand they unlock job...
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Zero-hours contracts in a frictional labor market
Dolado, Juan J.; Lalé, Etienne; Turon, Hélène - 2021
We propose a model to evaluate the U.K.'s zero-hours contract (ZHC) - a contract that exempts employers from the requirement to provide any minimum working hours, and allows employees to decline any workload. We find quantitatively that ZHCs improve welfare by enabling firms with more volatile...
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Scars of recessions in a rigid labor market
Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna - 2015
We study the impact of graduating in a recession in Flanders (Belgium), i.e. in a rigid labor market. In the presence of a high minimum wage, a typical recession hardly influences the hourly wage of low educated men, but reduces working time and earnings by about 4.5% up to twelve years after...
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Scars of recessions in a rigid labor market
Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna - 2015
We study the impact of graduating in a recession in Flanders (Belgium), i.e. in a rigid labor market. In the presence of a high minimum wage, a typical recession hardly influences the hourly wage of low educated men, but reduces working time and earnings by about 4.5% up to twelve years after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488823
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Alternative Approaches to Discrete Working Time Choice in an Age Framework
Arntz, Melanie; Boeters, Stefan; Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2008
We compare two options of integrating discrete working time choice of heterogenous households into a general equilibrium model. The first, known from the literature, produces household heterogeneity through a working time preference parameter. We contrast this with a model that directly...
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Drivers and effects of labour market reforms : evidence from a novel policy compendium
Adascalitei, Dragos; Morano, Clemente Pignatti - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 15, pp. 1-32
The paper analyses the determinants and short-term effects of labour market reforms, using information from a novel policy compendium that covers 110 developed and developing economies between 2008 and 2014. We find that the approval of reforms is positively associated with the unemployment...
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Reforming German labor market institutions : a dual path to flexibility
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2009
moderation and working time flexibility. While at the outset of this reform sequence German had a small, but relatively …
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