Health, Work Intensity, and Technological Innovations

Raouf Boucekkine, Natali Hritonenko () and Yuri Yatsenko
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Natali Hritonenko: Department of Mathematics, Prairie View A&M University

No 1320, AMSE Working Papers from Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France

Abstract: Work significantly affects human life and health. Overworking may decrease the quality of life and cause direct economic losses. Technological innovations encourage modernization of firms’ capital and improve labor productivity in the workplace. The paper investigates the optimal individual choice of work intensity under improving technology embodied in new equipment leading to shorter lifetime of capital goods (obsolescence). The balanced growth trajectories are analyzed in this context to find out, in particular, how the optimal choice of work intensity is tied to the rate of embodied technological change. The impact of embodied technological advances on the work/life balance problem is discussed and their macroeconomic consequences are highlighted.

Keywords: work-life balance; rational individual choice; technological development; vintage capital. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C60 D91 D92 I10 O11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2013-03, Revised 2013-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cwa, nep-dge, nep-hea, nep-hrm and nep-ino
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