With the changes in the work organization and the emergence of the flexible production system, especially from the 80`s, new work arrangements have appeared. One of them is the reduced hours working day in which one works ...

This study explains the impact of taxes and labor market institutions on the total hours ob- served in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We develop a bal- anced growth model with matching frictions ...

The reduction of standard weekly working hours from the curreilt leveI of 44 hours to 40 hours has recently been proposed by the main central unions as a way to create jobs and reduce unemployment in Brazil. The idea, known ...

Health personnel are protagonists in developing and improving the health system, for caring of individuals and their communities, helping to improve the quality of life and health of the population. Thus, they occupy a key ...

Executive summary The main objective of this study on 'Growth and Employment' is to determine the ability of the Jamaican economy to generate productive employment, and how this has been affected by reforms implemented in ...

The public policies established in Brazil in the eighties, in searching to adjust the serious macroeconomic unbalances, were applied in a period when world productive restructuring and globalisation were intensified. ...