The French 35-Hour Experience: Impacts on Employment and Inequality

Labor market effects of work‐sharing arrangements in Taiwan, ROC

“…Assuming that wages are based on working hours, the marginal cost of hiring an additional worker will also increase ( MC N ) in response to rise in overtime hours owing to work‐sharing arrangements ( h − h s ). As seen in Equation (3), the marginal cost of hiring an additional worker ( MC N ) will increase in response to work‐sharing arrangements:(Equation 6) (Equation 7)On the other hand, based on Cahuc and Carcillo (2011) and Gills (2004), we built the standard program of optimization of a consumer‐employee of type i whose utility function u i is a quasi‐concave and is strictly increasing based on two arguments: For each type of work, the productivity of a worker is measured by the parameter θ >0. A worker productivity θ produces a quantity θf ( H ), f (0)=0, f ′>0. f ″<0, when the worker work the hours h where h = h s + h OT ( i ) .…”

“…On the other hand, based on Cahuc and Carcillo (2011) and Gills (2004), we built the standard program of optimization of a consumer‐employee of type i whose utility function u i is a quasi‐concave and is strictly increasing based on two arguments: For each type of work, the productivity of a worker is measured by the parameter θ >0. A worker productivity θ produces a quantity θf ( H ), f (0)=0, f ′>0. f ″<0, when the worker work the hours h where h = h s + h OT ( i ) .…”