The demand for leisure time in the presence of constrained work hours.
This article presents a labor supply model designed to address situations of overemployment or underemployment in the labor market. Previous labor supply models have taken the possibility of work hour constraints into consideration but typically assumed that the existence of fixed work hours only in...
| Published in: | Economic Inquiry Vol. 38; no. 4; pp. 651 - 662 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
October 2000
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