Reducing Hours of Work: Does Overtime Act as a Brake Upon Employment Growth? An Analysis by Gender for the Case of Italy
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employment; overtime work; reducing contractual hours;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
- J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DCM-2002-09-11 (Discrete Choice Models)
- NEP-LAB-2002-09-11 (Labour Economics)
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