We only have a few hours.

I only have a few hours.

We've only got a few hours.

the number of hours worked in a normal week, i.e., with no vacation.

This job shouldn't take more than a couple of hours.

This job shouldn't take more than a couple of hours.

I'm only here for a few hours.

I'll only stay for a few hours.

The lump of labor theory assumes that working longer and employing more people is the same thing.

What has changed in the society in the past 60 hours.

It appeared on the site for only a few hours.

The man died a few hours ago.

I saw Tom just a few hours ago.

I saw him just a few hours ago.

I saw her just a few hours ago.

Siemens was the forerunner, going from 35 to 40 hours per week.

One alternative is to increase working hours without increasing salary per hours proportionally.

They found that of the 31 million German workers questioned, 30 want fewer (but pay adjusted) working hours, but that 26 want to work longer hours.

Right across much of the world North America being a notable exception working hours have been coming down.

Such measures, designed to create jobs by freeing up work hours, are futile at best, and are often detrimental.

The increased tax burden for all who are employed is analogous to the reduced hours in work sharing.

After an operation, they only spend a few hours in the hospital.

Just 12 hours until the 2016 Nobel Prize will be announced.

Tom died just a few hours after Mary died.

On the jobs front, the Internet of Everything will be a key driver of employment.

The average number of working hours per person depends on a variety of factors

Thus, the total effect of the recession on labor income of jobs, hours and wage reductions is much larger.

Above all, Japan needs to create a more welcoming environment for immigrant workers.

Longer working time can be achieved nearly instantaneously, whereas employing more people is time consuming and expensive, as it typically requires new physical investment. Working longer is thus the ideal way to achieve growth and competitiveness.

But the relative decline in work hours is also due to trade unions' success in winning compulsory vacation time.

Working longer is thus the ideal way to achieve growth and competitiveness.

Europeans certainly need something to compensate for a short working life with many vacations.

Indeed, until the mid 1970's, the number of hours worked on either side of the Atlantic was roughly the same.

This is Bangalore. It took me a couple of hours to get a few miles in Bangalore last year.

This would lower the marginal productivity of hours worked sufficiently to offset the positive effects of increasing the number of hours per worker.

Fewer hours worked, longer vacations, and a declining population (since 2005) have, predictably, undermined Japanese growth.

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Some fear that extending the workday will not produce more jobs because the resulting expansion of hours worked will reduce the capital labor ratio.

It takes eight hours to travel the 323 kilometres, as too much of the route is just a single track.

In other words, they obtained shorter hours (i.e., more vacations) in order to keep employment up. The problem is that total compensation did not go down in proportion to the shorter hours, thus leading to an increase in pay per hour.

This is what German legislators concocted workers who have been with a firm for more than 6 months can demand reduced hours. (Remember, firing workers comes at an exorbitant cost and with extensive room for legal challenges.)

Working longer will boost economic growth, for if people work longer, then so does capital.

In other words, they obtained shorter hours (i.e., more vacations) in order to keep employment up.

This is what German legislators concocted workers who have been with a firm for more than 6 months can demand reduced hours.

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