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Title 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 [and others]
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 269 pages) : illustrations
Series Reports for the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti
Reports for the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti.
Contents 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
Summary Why do Europeans work so little compared to Americans? Can they be induced to work more without reducing labour productivity? This volume explores these questions and more in order to understand the changing nature of the hours worked in the USA and EU, as well as the effects of policies that impose working hour restrictions
Analysis Samfundsvidenskab Økonomi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject 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
Hours of labor -- United States -- Congresses
Job sharing -- United States -- Congresses
Hours of labor.
Job sharing.
Labor productivity.
Job sharing
Mitgliedsstaaten
Arbeitszeit
Arbeidstijd.
Deeltijdarbeid.
European Union countries.
United States.
EU-landen.
Verenigde Staten.
Portovenere <2006>
Europäische Union.
USA.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Form Electronic book
Author Boeri, Tito.
Burda, Michael C.
Kramarz, Francis.
Cahuc, Pierre.
Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti.
LC no. 2008295352
ISBN 9780191710834
0191710830