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We examine the redistributive impact of working time regulations in an economy with unequal lifetimes. It is shown that … uniform working time reductions, when uncompensated (i.e. constant hourly wage), can reduce inequalities in realized lifetime … short-lived worse off. When compensated (i.e. constant labour earnings), uniform working time reductions make the short …
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We study the causal effect of a change in working times on overweight and obesity drawing from evidence from a national policy (the Aubry reform) implemented in the beginning of the past decade in France that reduced the work week from 39 to 35 hours, or 184 hours per year. We draw on two...
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Status considerations with respect to consumption give rise to negative externalities because individuals do not take into account that their decisions affect the relative consumption position of others. Further, status concerns create incentives for excessive labour supply in competitive...
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through working time reductions. We use information on the entire labour market career and other observables to control for … for individuals who reduce their working time most. After two (four) years for men (women), the positive effects reverse …
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This study estimates the causal effect of working hours on health. We deal with the endogeneity of working hours through instrumental variables techniques. In particular, we exploit exogenous variation in working hours from statutory workweek regulations in the German public sector as an...
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We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the...
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lack of real-time microdata. This paper studies the distributional and fiscal implications of output changes in Germany …
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of cited patent, which implies that new knowledge faces the largest barriers to diffusion. However, over time, border and …
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countries (Home and Foreign) which are located in different time zones, we highlight the impact of trade in labor services (via … the shift-working commodity is held by pairs of countries in different time zones and connected through a good …
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Learning profiles, that track changes in student skills per year of schooling, often find shockingly low learning gains. Using data from three recent studies in South Asia and Africa, we show that a majority of students spend years of instruction with no progress on basics. We argue shallow...
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