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High-Pressure, High-Paying Jobs?
Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes; Winkler, Erwin - 2022
Work-related stress has reportedly increased over time. Using worker-level survey data, we build a measure of work pressure strongly associated with adverse health outcomes. In line with theories of compensating differentials, work pressure comes with a sizable earnings premium, even within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470360
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High-Pressure, High-Paying Jobs?
Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes; Winkler, Erwin - 2022
Work-related stress has reportedly increased over time. Using worker-level survey data, we build a measure of work pressure strongly associated with adverse health outcomes. In line with theories of compensating differentials, work pressure comes with a sizable earnings premium, even within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241319
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Cash Transfer Programs and Household Labor Supply
Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela; Sorrenti, … - 2020
Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply. The attendance of labor-market-oriented mentoring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214158
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Cash Transfer Programs and Household Labor Supply
Boca, Daniela Del - 2020
Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply. The attendance of labor-market-oriented mentoring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834995
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Relationship Stability: Evidence from Labor and Marriage Markets
Kesternich, Iris; Siflinger, Bettina; Smith, James P.; … - 2024
Based on a sample of elderly individuals from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe, we investigate the relationship between job and marital stability over the life cycle. We argue that an unobserved, time-varying social skill affects stability in both markets. Using a grouped...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015047231
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Performance of young adults: The importance of different skills
Falch, Torberg; Nyhus, Ole Henning; Strøm, Bjarne - 2013
This paper uses teacher assessments at age 16 in Norwegian comprehensive schools to measure different types of skills …. While we follow the literature and interpret test scores in Mathematics and Science as proxy for cognitive skills, we use a … novel measure for another type of skills: Performance in behavioral and practical subjects. Using individual register data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291667
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The Ability Gradient in Bunching
Bastani, Spencer; Waldenström, Daniel - 2020
We analyze the relationship between cognitive ability and bunching in the context of a large and salient kink point of the Swedish income tax schedule. Using population-wide register data from the Swedish military enlistment and administrative tax records, we find that high-ability individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207998
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The Dynamics of Power in Labor Markets: Monopolistic Unions versus Monopsonistic Employers
Dodini, Samuel; Salvanes, Kjell; Willén, Alexander L.P. - 2021
This paper brings together the modern literatures on monopsony power and labor unions by empirically examining the effects of unionization on the dynamics of worker earnings across differently concentrated markets. Exploiting tax reforms to union due deductions as exogenous shocks to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177529
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Wages, Skills, and Skill-Biased Technical Change: The Canonical Model Revisited
Bowlus, Audra; Lochner, Lance; Robinson, Chris; … - 2021
The canonical supply-demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely influential; however, it has faced several important challenges. Several studies show that the standard approach sometimes produces theoretically wrong-signed elasticities of substitution, yields counterintuitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012657918
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Is There Job Polarization in Developing Economies? A Review and Outlook
Martins-Neto, Antonio; Mathew, Nanditha; Mohnen, Pierre; … - 2021
This paper analyses the evidence of job polarization in developing countries. We carry out an extensive review of the existing empirical literature and examine the primary data sources and measures of routine intensity. The synthesis of results suggests that job polarization in emerging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799744