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].

Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Descriptionxiv, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

Other author/creatorBoeri, Tito.
Other author/creatorBurda, Michael C.
Other author/creatorKramarz, Francis.
Other author/creatorCahuc, Pierre.
Other author/creatorFondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti.
SeriesReports for the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti
Reports for the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti. ^A797954
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.
General note"The two studies that make up this volume were originally prepared for the fifth European conference of the Fondazione Rodolfo DeBenedetti, which was held in Portovenere in May 2006"--Acknowledgements.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008295352
ISBN9780199231027 (hbk.)
ISBN0199231028 (hbk.)