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Adjusted State Teacher Salaries and the Decision to Teach
Rickman, Dan S.; Wang, Hongbo; Winters, John V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
as those with occupations outside of education, are used to adjust for state household amenity attractiveness. We then … significantly affects the share of education majors that are employed as teachers at the time of the survey. …
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More Hours, More Jobs? The Employment Effects of Longer Working Hours
Andrews, Martyn J.; Gerner, Hans-Dieter; Schank, Thorsten; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Increases in standard hours have been a contentious policy issue in Germany. Whilst this might directly lead to a substitution of workers by hours, there may also be a positive employment effect due to reduced costs. Moreover, the response of firms differs between firms which offer overtime and...
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A Primer on the 35-Hour in France, 1997–2007
Askenazy, Philippe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
France has experienced massive changes in its regulation of working time during the last decade. These changes generate natural experiments that may help to study a variety of issues in labor economics, including work sharing effect on job creation or productivity, labor relations or adaptation...
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The Use of Flexible Measures to Cope with Economic Crises in Germany and Brazil
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Pastore, José - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This study gives a comparative overview of labor market dynamics and institutional arrangements in Germany and Brazil with particular emphasis on industrial relations, wage setting, unemployment benefits, employment protection and vocational training. The paper shows that institutions determine...
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The Impact of Growth, Labour Cost and Working Time on Employment: Lessons from the French Experience
L’Horty, Yannick; Rault, Christophe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
To account for employment evolutions at the macro-economic level, we propose a modelling where employment is explained by added value, working time and real labour cost. Estimations using quarterly French macro-economic data are carried out in a multivariate framework for three sets of sectors....
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Effort-Based Career Opportunities and Working Time
Bratti, Massimiliano; Staffolani, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
In this paper we describe the hypothesis of effort-based career opportunities as a situation in which profit maximizing firms create incentives for employees to work longer hours than the bargained ones, by making career prospects dependent on working hours. When effortbased career opportunities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822839
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Real Wages, Working Time, and the Great Depression: What Does Micro Evidence Tell Us?
Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, J. Elizabeth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Based largely on industry-level aggregate statistics, the prevailing view, and one that has strongly influenced macroeconomic thought, is that real wages during the cycle containing the Great Depression are either acyclical or countercyclical. Does this finding hold-up when more micro data are...
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Older Workers and Working Time
Bell, David N.F.; Rutherford, Alasdair C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Contrary to much of the established literature, this paper finds that though many older workers would prefer to reduce their working hours (the overemployed), there is a significant group who would like to work longer hours (the underemployed). And contrary to the assumption that the...
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The Detaxation of Overtime Hours: Lessons from the French Experiment
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In October 2007 France introduced an exemption on the income tax and social security contributions that applied to wages received for hours worked overtime. The goal of the policy was to increase the number of hours worked. This article shows that this reform has had no significant impact on...
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Reflexionen zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Familienfreundlichkeit der Arbeitswelt viel stärker betont, Bildung endlich zum Top-Thema macht, die Lebensarbeitszeit fair verlängert und … setzen. Gefragt sind nicht nur innovative Arbeitszeit-, Qualifizierungs- und Entlohnungsmodelle, sondern auch neue Wege der … je ein hohes Maß an Eigenverantwortlichkeit des Einzelnen in Bildung, Ausbildung und Beruf und die Bereitschaft, sich …
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