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Reservation Raises : The Aggregate Labor Supply Curve at the Extensive Margin
Mui, Preston; Schoefer, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We measure extensive-margin labor supply (employment) preferences in two representative surveys of the U.S. and German populations. We elicit reservation raises: the percent wage change that renders a given individual indifferent between employment and nonemployment. It is equal to her...
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Slowing Women's Labor Force Participation : The Role of Income Inequality
Albanesi, Stefania; Prados, María José - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The entry of married women into the labor force and the rise in women's relative wages are amongst the most notable … discontinued growth in female labor supply and wages since the 1990s is a consequence of growing inequality. Our hypothesis is that … their participation and wages. We show that the slowdown in participation and wage growth was concentrated among women …
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Taxes and the Labor Supply of the Stars
Keniston, Daniel; Peralta, Abigail Allison M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Do high taxes cause superstars to work less? We test this hypothesis using complete data on Hollywood movie stars' labor supply from 1927 to 2014. Changes to marginal tax rates in high tax brackets have no significant effect on the number of films a movie star makes each year. However, in years...
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Days of Work Over a Half Century : The Rise of the Four-day Week
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Biddle, Jeff - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
million more full-time workers on four-day weeks. The same growth occurred in the Netherlands, Germany, and South Korea. The …
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AI and Jobs : Evidence from Online Vacancies
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Hazell, Jonathon; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022 - Revised February 2022
We study the impact of AI on labor markets, using establishment level data on vacancies with detailed occupational information comprising the near-universe of online vacancies in the US from 2010 onwards. We classify establishments as "AI exposed" when their workers engage in tasks that are...
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A Tale of Two Fields? STEM Career Outcomes
Jiang, Xuan; Staudt, Joseph; Weinberg, Bruce A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Is the labor market for US researchers experiencing the best or worst of times? This paper analyzes the market for recently minted Ph.D. recipients using supply-and-demand logic and data linking graduate students to their dissertations and W2 tax records. We also construct a new...
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Education Gradients in Parental Time Investment and Subjective Well-being
Kalil, Ariel; Mayer, Susan E.; Delgado, William; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
College-educated mothers spend substantially more time in intensive childcare than less educated mothers despite their higher opportunity cost of time and working more hours. Using data from the 2010-2013 and 2021 waves of the Well-being Module of the American Time Use Survey, we investigate...
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The Labor Demand and Labor Supply Channels of Monetary Policy
Graves, Sebastian; Huckfeldt, Christopher K.; Swanson, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Monetary policy is conventionally understood to influence labor demand, with little effect on labor supply. We estimate the response of labor market flows to high-frequency changes in interest rates around FOMC announcements and Fed Chair speeches and find that, in contrast to the consensus...
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Has the Willingness to Work Fallen during the Covid Pandemic?
Faberman, R. Jason; Müller, Andreas; Şahin, Ayşegül - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine the effect of the Covid pandemic on willingness to work along both the extensive and intensive margins of labor supply. Special survey questions in the Job Search Supplement of the Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) allow us to elicit information about individuals' desired work...
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Preparing for the future of work in Canada
OECD - 2020
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