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The working hours of immigrants in Germany : temporary versus permanent

Kahanec, Martin; Shields, Michael P. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-15

Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating human capital specific to the host country. Instead, they work more hours in order to accumulate savings and invest in financial capital that can be transferred back to their...

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Explaining Differences in Hours Worked among OECD Countries : An empirical analysis

Causa, Orsetta - 2008

, focussing on the impact of taxation, working-time regulations, and other labour and product market policies. It explores the … categories. Thirdly, other labour and product market policies, in particular stringent employment protection of workers on … regular contracts and competition-restraining product market policies, have a negative impact on hours worked by men, over and …

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Unions, wages and hours

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine union-non-union differentials in wages and hours in the United States over the last 50 years using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The regression-adjusted difference between union members' and non-members' hourly earnings has been falling since the Great Recession. The...

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Part-time employment opportunities and labour supply of older workers

Albinowski, Maciej - In: The journal of the economics of ageing 28 (2024), pp. 1-10

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Chapter 18. Labor Market Institutions and the Dispersion of Wage Earnings

Salverda, Wiemer; Checchi, Daniele - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 1535-1727). 2015

individuals to their relevant institutional framework. Minimum wage legislation and active labor market policies come out …

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Fluctuations in hours of work and employment across age and gender

Laroque, Guy; Osotimehin, Sophie - 2014

This paper documents the heterogeneity in labor market volatility across ages and gender in the United States over 1976 … aggregate hours worked over the business cycle. We discuss the implications of our findings for theories of labor market …

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Short-time work compensations and employment : temporary government schemes can have a positive economic effect

Cahuc, Pierre - 2014

employment levels during recessions. However, they can create inefficiency in the labor market, and might limit labor market …

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The Big Shift in Working Arrangements : Eight Ways Unusual

Davis, Steven J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic instigated a big shift in working arrangements. I first describe the scale of this shift in the United States, drawing on the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes and other sources. I then review differences, circa 2023, in work-from-home rates across industries,...

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Working time regulation, unequal lifetimes and fairness

Leroux, Marie-Louise; Ponthiere, Gregory - In: Social choice and welfare 51 (2018) 3, pp. 436-464

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Chapter 4. The Macroeconomics of Time Allocation

Aguiar, M.; Hurst, E. - In: Handbook of macroeconomics : volume 2, v. 2A-2B SET, (pp. 203-253). 2016

In this chapter we explore the macroeconomics of time allocation. We begin with an overview of the trends in market …

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