Major strands of recent macroeconomic theory hinge on the relation of workers' efforts to their wages, but there has … include detailed time diaries to examine how changes in the use of time on the job affect wages. Additional time spent by the … average worker relaxing at work has no impact on earnings (and is presumably unproductive). Additional on-the- job leisure …

Using panel data from 23 OECD countries, I document that wages grow more over the life-cycle in countries where job …-to-job mobility is more common. A life-cycle theory of job shopping and accumulation of skills on the job highlights that a more fluid … comparable cross-country training data, finding support for the theory …

experience profiles of wages is explained, in part, by changes in relative demographic supplies (cohort effects), and in part by …

substantial. In addition to confirming some features of contract theory, the results lend support to the bonding models of Becker …

implications for how aggregate labor supply responds to changes in taxes. In the first model, curvature in the utility from leisure … extent of curvature in the utility from leisure function …

Zeitverwendungserhebung, 2012-13, have sufficient observations to allow examining the theory of household production in much more detail than …

, father's education, and wages for young men and their siblings from NLSY. We also examine the empirical implications of …

-based explanations of wage changes consistent with increasing variance in wages as well as increases in mean wages as suggested by skill …