We study the consequences of a working time reduction (WTR) in growth model with efficiency and an essential natural resource (natural capital) which technical progress cannot reduce content final production to zero. show that if capital is scarce enough, WTR increases long-term levels hourly wage employment. A numerical analysis transitory impacts confirms when scarcer, employment more less, l...

In the linked analysis article, Purcell Jackson and Ta rpley describe their concern that surgical trainees in the United States might be forced to work within a maximum 80 hour week.1 Meanwhile, the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) demands that all trainee doctors in Europe work an average of only 48 hours a week,2 and the Royal College of Surgeons of England is appealing for all their tr...