Employment effects of longer working hours

Thorsten Schank

World of Labour, 2015, No 216, 216

Abstract: Standard hours, a major component of total work hours, vary considerably across Europe. Many countries lowered their standard work hours during the 1980s and 1990s, attempting to boost employment by splitting up a fixed number of worker-hours among more workers. Germany has seen a partial reversal of the trend as several companies increased their standard hours to reduce their labor costs in the early 2000s. The employment effect of increased standard hours depends on the time horizon examined, how wages respond, whether employees collected overtime pay before the change, and the productivity of hours worked, among other factors.

Keywords: labor demand; standard hours (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J20 J30 J81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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