Longer Hours or More Jobs? An Investigation of Amending Hours Legislation to Create Employment.

Employment and Hours of Work

This paper develops a dynamic model of the labor market in which the degree of substitution between employment and hours of work is determined as part of a search equilibrium. Each firm chooses the demand for working hours and the number of vacancies, and the hourly wage rate is determined by Nash bargaining. A firm increases the demand for hours as recruitment becomes more costly. Labor market...

Substituting Working Hours with Employment :

Students take advantage of longer library hours

With the f irs t p re s id e n t ia l p r im aries only th ree m on ths aw ay, c a m p u s g ro u p s h av e begun to address rates of stu­ dent voter registration. Newly fo rm e d c a m p u s i n i t i a t iv e N D V otes’08, a n o n p a r t i s a n ed u ca t io n a l cam p a ig n s p o n ­ sored by the Center for Social Concerns, is spearheading the efforts. Senior Mike McKenna, CSC co o rd i...

Longer Opening Hours , Alcohol Consumption and Health

Two related issues in public policy with respect to alcohol are how increased availability influences consumption and what effect excess consumption has on individual health outcomes. This paper examines one particular source of variation in availability, bar opening hours, and how this influences consumption, physical and mental health. We focus on the extension of opening hours in England and...

Employment Stability via Annualized Hours Contracts?

The presented paper proves that working time arrangements, which include hours flexibility and enable hours deposits, are appealing under product market uncertainty. The model integrates efficiency wage arguments into an implicit insurance–contract environment, thus extending the existing literature. The solutions are renegotiation–proof and the long–run optimum is spot implementable. Moreover,...