Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34985 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3402
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
France has experienced massive changes in its regulation of working time during the last decade. These changes generate natural experiments that may help to study a variety of issues in labor economics, including work sharing effect on job creation or productivity, labor relations or adaptation of firms to regulation. This paper provides a primer for researchers interested by working on these issues. It includes detailed information about the 35-hour laws and their progressive removal, and discusses the first wave of research evaluating these policies, that draws a contrasted picture. It also highlights some unexplored lines of research.
Subjects: 
France
35-hour week
working time
bargaining
JEL: 
J20
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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