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Wages, hours and human capital over the life cycle

Hart, Robert A.; Ma, Yue - 2000

We investigate wage-hours contracts within a four-period rent sharing model that incorporates asymmetric information. Distinctions are made among (a) an investment period, (b) a period in which the parties may separate (quits or layoffs) or continue rent accumulation and sharing, (c) a post...

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The life-cycle and the business-cycle of wage risk : a cross-country comparison

Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - 2009

This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First, we find that household characteristics explain about...

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Permanent and transitory wage inequality of British men 1975-2001 : year, age and cohort effects

Kalwij, Adriaan S. (contributor); Alessie, Rob (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Disability and work : the role of health shocks and childhood circumstances

Lindeboom, Maarten (contributor); … - 2006

This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data from the British National Child Development Study...

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Gender, time use and public policy over the life cycle

Apps, Patricia (contributor); Rees, Ray (contributor) - 2005

In this paper we compare gender differences in the allocation of time to market work, domestic work, child care, and leisure over the life cycle. Time use profiles for these activity categories are constructed on survey data for three countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the...

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Part-time employment can be a life-time setback for earnings : a study of British women 1975 - 2001

Connolly, Sara (contributor); Gregory, Mary (contributor) - 2007

Two particular features of the position of women in the British labour market are the extensive role of part-time work and the large part-time pay penalty. Part-time work features most prominently when women are in their 30s, the peak childcare years and, particularly for more educated women, a...

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Born to be mild? : Cohort effects don't (fully) explain why well-being is U-shaped in age

Clark, Andrew E. (contributor) - 2007

The statistical analysis of cross-section data very often reveals a U-shaped relationship between subjective well-being and age. This paper uses fourteen waves of British panel data to distinguish between two potential explanations of this shape: a pure life-cycle or aging effect, and a fixed...

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The productivity impact of R&D investment : a comparison between the EU and the US

Castellani, Davide; Piva, Mariacristina; Schubert, Torben; … - 2016

/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially … in the high-tech industries), and this contributes to explaining the higher productivity of US firms. Conversely, EU … firms are more likely to achieve productivity gains through capital-embodied technological change at least in medium and low …

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The impact of migration on productivity and native-born workers' training

Campo, Francesco; Forte, Giuseppe; Portes, Jonathan - 2018

We investigate the relationship between migration and productivity in the UK, using an instrumental variable along the … impact (in both the statistical sense and more broadly) on productivity, as measured at a geographical level; this appears to …

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The productivity of working hours

Pencavel, John H. - 2014

Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output and their working hours. The relationship is nonlinear: below an hours threshold, output is proportional to hours; above a threshold, output rises at a decreasing rate as hours...

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