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Working time : theory and policy implications / François Contensou (Professor of Economics) and Radu Vranceanu (Professor, Department of Economics, ESSEC Business School, Cergy, France)
Mitwirkende(r): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Buch (Online)Sprache: Englisch Verlag: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2000Beschreibung: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 232 pages) : illustrationsISBN:- 9781035335435
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Zusammenfassung: The contemporary context of unemployment and its political ramifications have made working time a highly topical and sensitive issue, not merely in the EU, but also in other areas of the global labor market. This illuminating book reviews the traditional doctrines concerning working time that are influencing political and intellectual attitudes. The authors illustrate how tools of microeconomic analysis must be modified to explain better the terms of contemporary labor contracts. They introduce powerful concepts such as a generalized production function, cost structure, compensating wage and trade union negotiation, to highlight the scope for political intervention on working time. Emphasis is placed on the analysis of legal time reductions as an employment policy. Taking into consideration new research and renewed political debate, this is an exhaustive text grounded in historical perspective and contemporary facts. By focusing on working time as a central issue of modern societies, this important book will be an invaluable text for scholars as well as decision-makers in the areas of industrial and labor economicsPPN: PPN: 192210714XPackage identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-EWE | ZDB-77-EEC | ZDB-77-ECE | ZDB-1-EWE-ebook
Contents: Foreword -- 1. Brief history of working time theory -- 2. Basic facts -- 3. Working time policy: An overview -- 4. The standard neoclassical view of the labor market -- 5. Working time, production and cost functions -- 6. Working time in a cost minimization problem -- 7. Cost minimization, heterogeneous workers and asymmetric information -- 8. Premium pay for overtime -- 9. Working time in a profit maximization framework -- 10. Working time in a trade union model -- 11. Complementary labor services and working time regulation -- 12. Working time reduction in a vertically integrated two-sector model -- 13. Working hours and unemployment in a matching model -- 14. Deregulation of overtime premium and employment dynamics -- References -- Index.
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