Working hours and job sharing in the EU and USA :

Working hours and job sharing in the EU and USA : are Europeans lazy? or Americans crazy? / edited by Tito Boeri, Michael C. Burda, and Francis Kramarz ; with Pierre Cahuc ... [et al.]. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - Reports for the Fondazione Rodolfo DeBenedetti .

"The two studies that make up this volume were originally prepared for the fifth European conference of the Fondazione Rodolfo DeBenedetti, which was held in Portovenere in May 2006"--Acknowledgements. Oxford scholarship online Economics and Finance


Includes bibliographical references and index.

The distribution of total work in the EU and USA / Michael C. Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh, and Philippe Weil -- Comments / Alberto Alesina, Christopher Pissarides -- Labor market effects of work-sharing arrangements in Europe / Francis Kramarz, Pierre Cahuc, Bruno Crépon, Oskar Nordström Skans, Thorsten Schank, Gijsbert van Lomwel, and André Zylberberg -- Comments / Giuseppe Nicoletti, Jan van Ours -- Final remarks / Olivier Blanchard, Stephen Nickell, Guido Tabellini.

9780199231027 (hbk.) 0199231028 (hbk.)


Hours of labor--European Union countries.
Hours of labor--United States.
Labor productivity--European Union countries.
Labor productivity--United States.
Job sharing--European Union countries.
Job sharing--United States.

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