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The Expanding Workweek? Understanding Trends in Long Work Hours Among U.S. Men, 1979-2004

Kuhn, Peter - 2005

According to Census and CPS data, the share of employed American men regularly working more than 48 hours per week is higher today than it was 25 years ago. Using CPS data from 1979 to 2006, we show that this increase was greatest among highly educated, highly-paid, and older men, was...

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Too Many Managers : The Strategic Use of Titles to Avoid Overtime Payments

Cohen, Lauren; Gurun, Umit G.; Ozel, N. Bugra - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We find widespread evidence of firms appearing to avoid paying overtime wages by exploiting a federal law that allows them to do so for employees termed as "managers" and paid a salary above a pre-defined dollar threshold. We show that listings for salaried positions with managerial titles...

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Financial Incentives and Other Nudges Do Not Increase COVID-19 Vaccinations among the Vaccine Hesitant

Chang, Tom; Jacobson, Mireille; Shah, Manisha; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Can financial incentives, public health messages and other behavioral nudges -approaches deployed by state and local …-2021, we randomly assigned unvaccinated members of a Medicaid managed care health plan to $10 or $50 financial incentives … treatments increased overall vaccination rates. Consistent with backlash concerns, financial incentives and negative messages …

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When Is Tinkering with Safety Net Programs Harmful to Beneficiaries?

Clemens, Jeffrey; Wither, Michael J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Interactions between redistributive policies can confront low-income households with complicated choices. We study one such interaction, namely the relationship between Medicaid eligibility thresholds and the minimum wage. A minimum wage increase reduces the number of hours a low-skilled...

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Incentives and Effort in the Public Sector : Have U.S. Education Reforms Increased Teachers' Work Hours?

Stoddard, Christiana - 2006

respond to the strength of contract incentives. Accordingly, we consider the response of teacher hours to accountability and …

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Incentives vs. Control : An Analysis of U.S. Dual-Class Companies

Gompers, Paul A. - 2004

Dual-class common stock allows for the separation of voting rights and cash flow rights across the different classes of equity. We construct a large sample of dual-class firms in the United States and analyze the relationships of insider's cash flow rights and voting rights with firm value,...

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The Incentive for Working Hard : Explaining Hours Worked Differences in the U.S. and Germany

Bell, Linda A. - 2000

This paper seeks to explain the greater hours worked by Americans compared to Germans in terms of forward-looking labor supply responses to differences in earnings inequality between the countries. We argue that workers choose current hours of work to gain promotions and advance in the...

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A Quantitative Framework for Analyzing the Distributional Effects of Incentive Schemes

Macartney, Hugh; McMillan, Robert; Petronijevic, Uros - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper develops the first quantitative framework for analyzing distributional effects of incentive schemes in public education. The analysis is built around a hump-shaped effort function, estimated semi-parametrically using exogenous incentive variation and rich administrative data. We...

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Estate and Gift Taxes and Incentives for Inter Vivos Giving in the United States

Poterba, James - 1998

States. It summarizes the incentives for inter vivos giving as a strategy for reducing estate tax liability. It shows that …

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Pecuniary Incentives to Work in the U.S. during World War II

Mulligan, Casey B. - 1997

It is argued that changes in workers' budget sets cannot explain the dramatic increases in" civilian work in the U.S. during World War II. Although money wages grew during the period wartime after-tax real wages were lower than either before or after the war. Evidence from the" 1940's also...

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