The impact of working-time reductions on actual hours and wages: evidence from Swedish register-data

Skans, Oskar Nordström

doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2003.06.002

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“…The estimate from our most preferred specification in column (4) shows that monthly working hours decreased by nearly 5.9 hours, which is roughly a 70-hour decrease in annual terms. This finding is also qualitatively similar to the experiences of other countries, such as Sweden, in the sense that actual hours declined with only a partial reduction in standard hours (Skans, 2004). In particular, our result suggests that a four-hour reduction in the standard workweek, which is 208 hours in annual term, results in about a 70-hour decrease-33 percent of a reduction in the standard workweek-in actual annual working hours.…”

Section: Impact Of Workweek Reduction On Actual Working Hourssupporting

confidence: 88%

When Less is More: The Impact of the Regulation on Standard Workweek on Labor Productivity in South Korea

Park¹,

Park²

2019

J Policy Anal Manage

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This paper examines the impact of a workweek reduction policy on the labor productivity of manufacturing plants in Korea. Taking advantage of the stepwise introduction of the standard 40‐hour workweek in Korea, we apply a difference‐in‐differences framework to individual‐level cross‐sectional and plant‐level longitudinal data to examine the impact of the policy on working hours and output, respectively. We find that the policy reduced per‐worker hours but increased per‐worker output, which is robust to various specifications and sample restrictions. The observed increase in per‐worker output is likely to be mediated through the increase in the total factor productivity and the amount of capital stock.

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Section: Impact Of Workweek Reduction On Actual Working Hourssupporting

confidence: 88%

When Less is More: The Impact of the Regulation on Standard Workweek on Labor Productivity in South Korea

Park¹,

Park²

2019

J Policy Anal Manage

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“…Skans (2004) evaluates this policy comparing workers affected by the reduction in hours to workers unaffected by it. He finds that there was little implementation of the working-time reduction, with actual hours falling by only about 35% of the reduction in standard hours.…”

Section: Previous Evaluations Of Legislated Workweek Reductionsmentioning

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The 35-hour workweek in France: Straightjacket or welfare improvement?

Estevão¹,

e²

2008

Economic Policy

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"Workweek reduction laws may be beneficial if market interactions do not fully take into account the preferences reflected in declining secular trends in working hours. The most recent law in France shortened the workweek from 39 to 35 hours in 2000 for large firms, and in 2002 for small firms. Analysing differences between large and small firm employees before and after the law, we find that aggregate employment was unaffected but labour turnover increased, as firms shed workers who became more expensive. Survey responses indicate that the welfare impact of the law was different across groups of workers: women but not men may have benefited from coordination to a shorter workweek, and there is also evidence of negative welfare effects for managers, possibly due to the law's administrative burden." Copyright (c) CEPR, CES, MSH, 2008..

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“…Simple stylized facts support the view that the unemployment rate is considerably lower in countries with centralized wage bargaining (e.g., Austria, Norway and Sweden), where this externality is internalized, than in economies with a very decentralized bargaining structure (United Kingdom, United States, France); see Mares (2006). In addition, there is also empirical evidence indicating that full centralization performs better in terms of employment compared with decentralized bargaining structure (see, e.g., Belot and van Ours, 2001, 2004or Nickell et al, 2005.…”

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Union wages, hours of work and the effectiveness of partial coordination agreements

Wehke

2009

Labour Economics

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Small monopoly trade unions decide upon the wage rate per hour and the hours of work subject to firm's demand for union members. Since the resulting Nash equilibrium is characterized by excess unemployment, we study the employment and welfare effects when trade unions try to coordinate their policies. Firstly, we consider a joint agreement about marginal wage moderation, where trade unions remain free to choose the hours of work non-cooperatively. Secondly, we analyze in which way a joint change in the hours of work affects employment and welfare if trade unions are free to choose the wage rate.

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The impact of working-time reductions on actual hours and wages: evidence from Swedish register-data

Cited by 17 publications

References 9 publications

When Less is More: The Impact of the Regulation on Standard Workweek on Labor Productivity in South Korea

When Less is More: The Impact of the Regulation on Standard Workweek on Labor Productivity in South Korea

The 35-hour workweek in France: Straightjacket or welfare improvement?

Union wages, hours of work and the effectiveness of partial coordination agreements

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