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The effect of firm-level contracts on the structure of wages : evidence from matched employer-employee data

Card, David E. (contributor); Rica, Sara de la (contributor) - 2004

In Spain, as in several other European countries, sectoral bargaining agreements are automatically extended to cover … inequality for women. At the establishment level, we compare average wages under firm-level and sectoral bargaining, controlling …-specific contracting raises average wages, with a pattern of effects that tends to increase inequality relative to sectoral bargaining for …

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Wage flexibility under sectoral bargaining

Card, David E.; Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2021

collective bargaining agreements, to study the interactions between wage floors and wage cushions and quantify the impact of …

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Unions and wage inequality : the roles of gender, skill and public sector employment

Card, David E.; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, William Craig - 2018

We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our study is motivated by profound recent changes in the composition of the unionized workforce. Historically, union jobs were concentrated among low-skilled men in private sector...

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The timing of labor demand

Cardoso, Ana Rute (contributor); … - 2008

We examine the timing of firms' operations in a formal model of labor demand. Merging a variety of data sets from Portugal from 1995-2004, we describe temporal patterns of firms' demand for labor and estimate production-functions and relative labor-demand equations. The results demonstrate the...

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The distribution of total work in the EU and US

Burda, Michael C. (contributor); … - 2006

Using two time-diary data sets each for Germany, Italy the Netherlands and the U.S. from 1985-2003, we demonstrate that Americans work more than Europeans: 1) in the market; 2) in total (market and home production)-- there is no one-for-one tradeoff across countries in total work; 3) at unusual...

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Total work, gender and social norms

Burda, Michael C. (contributor); … - 2007

German data show that they do not arise from differences in marital bargaining, as gender equality is not associated with …

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Aggregate impacts of a gift of time

Lee, Jungmin; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011

How would people spend additional time if confronted by permanent declines in market work? We examine the impacts of cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan around 1990 and Korea in the early 2000s. Using time-diaries from before and after these shocks,...

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Not working at work : loafing, unemployment and labor productivity

Burda, Michael C.; Genadek, Katie R.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015

Using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) 2003-12, we estimate time spent by workers in non-work while on the job. Non-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While the average time spent by workers in non-work conditional on any positive non-work rises...

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Long workweeks and strange hours

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2014

American workweeks are long compared to other rich countries'. Much less well-known is that Americans are more likely to work at night and on weekends. We examine the relationship between these two phenomena using the American Time Use Survey and time-diary data from 5 other countries. Adjusting...

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Cyclical variation in labor hours and productivity using the ATUS

Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Stewart, Jay … - 2012

We examine monthly variation in weekly work hours using data for 2003-10 from the Current Population Survey (CPS) on hours/worker, from the Current Employment Survey (CES) on hours/job, and from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) on both. The ATUS data minimize recall difficulties and constrain...

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