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Employment and Distributional Effects of Restricting Working Time
Marimon, Ramon; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
We study the emplyment and distributional effects of regulating (reducing) working time in a general equilibrium model with search-matching frictions. Job creation entails some fixed costs, but existing jobs are subject to diminishing returns. We characterize the equilibrium in the de-regulated...
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Are Shirking and Leisure Substitutable? An Empirical Test of Efficiency Wages based on Urban Economic Theory
Ross, Stephen L.; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
allow for behavioural substitution between leisure time at home and effort at work. In equilibrium, residing at a location … with a long commute affects the time available for leisure at home and therefore affects the trade-off between effort at … work and risk of unemployment. This model implies an empirical relationship between expected commutes and labour market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662249
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Are Shirking and Leisure Substitutable? An Empirical Test of Efficiency Wages based on Urban Economic Theory
Ross, Stephen L.; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
allow for behavioural substitution between leisure time at home and effort at work. In equilibrium, residing at a location … with a long commute affects the time available for leisure at home and therefore affects the trade-off between effort at … work and risk of unemployment. This model implies an empirical relationship between expected commutes and labour market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005788928
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Hobbies, Skills and Incentives to Work: The Happy Gardener and the Wealthy Golfer
Sällström, Susanna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
goods that enabled humans to derive more pleasure out of leisure, namely dance and music. I model the incentives to invent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504741
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On the Taxation of Human and Physical Capital in Models of Endogenous Growth
Milesi-Ferretti, Gian Maria; Roubini, Nouriel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
endogenous growth. It examines in particular how these effects depend on the specification of the leisure activity and on the … capital accumulation can offset the direct growth effects of labour taxation, making it akin to a consumption tax. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114284
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Returns to Human Capital Under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy
Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666520
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The Union Wage Effect in Late Nineteenth Century Britain
Bailey, Roy E; Boyer, George; Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
in Britain between 1889-90 using data from the US Commissioner of Labour survey conducted at that time. The determinants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005788943
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Incentives to Work: Replacement Ratios and the Cost of Job Loss Among Indigenous Australians.
Daly, A.; Hunter, B. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1998
The relationship between the social welfare system and employment incentives has received considerable attention in the literature. This paper uses data from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey to consider these issues for indigenous Australians. Two measures are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967983
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Unemployment Insurance in Theory and Practice
Holmlund, B. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1997
A hallmark of modern labour economics is the close interplay between the development of theory, data sources and …
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Getting Ahead: the Determinants of and Payoffs to Internal Promotion for Young Men and Women.
Cobb-Clark, D. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1998
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper examines the role of gender in the promotion process and the importance of promotions in the relative labor market outcomes of young men and womenin their early careers.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004968002