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Working time and employment under uncertainty
Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - 2002
can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we consider the … impact of uncertainty and real options on the decision of working time, i.e. we examines the determinants of employment and …
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Why do Europeans work less than Americans? : public consumption and welfare benefits as a cause of the North-Atlantic divide
Hall, Axel; Gylfi Zoega - 2015
We propose an explanation of why Europeans choose to work fewer hours than Americans and also suffer higher rates of unemployment. Labor market regulations, unemployment benefits, and high levels of public consumption in many European countries reduce, ceteris paribus, the gains from being...
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Hours inequality
Checchi, Daniele; García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Vivian, Lara - 2022
The vast literature on earnings inequality has so far largely ignored the role played by hours of work. This paper argues that in order to understand earnings dispersion we need to consider not only the dispersion of hourly wages but also inequality in hours worked as well as the correlation...
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Hours worked in Europe and the US : new data, new answers
Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2016
Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …
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The supply of hours worked and fluctuations between growth regimes
Iong, Ka-Kit; Irmen, Andreas - 2021
Declining hours of work per worker in conjunction with a growing work force may give rise to fluctuations between growth regimes. This is shown in an overlapping generations model with two-period lived individuals endowed with Boppart-Krusell preferences (Boppart and Krusell (2020)). On the...
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Income or leisure? : on the hidden benefits of (un-)employment
Chadi, Adrian; Hetschko, Clemens - 2017
benefit of employment. Finally, we examine subjective assessments of income and leisure as potential predictors for job take …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688216
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Technological progress, the supply of hours worked, and the consumption-leisure complementarity
Irmen, Andreas - 2018 - This Version: January 23, 2018
At least since 1870 hours worked per worker declined and real wages increased in many of today's industrialized countries. The dual nature of technological progress in conjunction with a consumption-leisure complementarity explains these stylized facts. Technological progress drives real wages...
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Taxation and labor supply of married couples across countries : a macroeconomic analysis
Bick, Alexander; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2017
We document contemporaneous differences in the aggregate labor supply of married couples across 17 European countries and the US. Based on a model of joint household decision making, we quantify the contribution of international differences in non-linear labor income taxes and consumption taxes...
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Working time regulation, unequal lifetimes and fairness
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2016
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 well-being between short-lived and long-lived...
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Universal childcare for the youngest and the maternal labour supply
Kunze, Astrid; Liu, Xingfei - 2019
that expanded childcare for 1–2- year-olds in Norway. Our results reveal a significant increase in the overall employment …-protected maternity leave and with currently zero hours of work from the target group, we estimate even larger effects on employment and …-term effects of the reform on both employment and hours of work. …
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