Can Adjustments to Working Hours Help Reduce Unemployment if Firms Act Globally?

Gerhard Rübel ()
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Gerhard Rübel: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - * Faculty of Economic Sciences - Chair of International and Monetary Economics, Postal: Wilhelmsplatz 1, 37073 Göttingen, Germany, http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/sh/1.html

Economia Internazionale / International Economics, 1999, vol. 52, issue 1, 111-132

Abstract: The article discusses, on the one hand, several reasons which question the positive impact of a reduction in working hours, even without an offsetting upward adjustment in wage rates, upon employment in an open economy with firms acting globally. On the other hand, all effects will turn round resulting in a positive impact upon the unemployment rate if working hours are voluntarily extended. The discussion is followed by a theoretical analysis using an efficiency wage model in a small open economy. JEL Classification: F21, F23, J41

JEL-codes: F21 F23 J41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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