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The economics of dual job holding : a job portfolio model of labor supply
Renna, Francesco (contributor);  … - 2006
In this paper we develop a job portfolio model of dual job holding based on a Stone-Geary utility function. We derive the associated Slutsky equation components. Because the job portfolio model applies only to unconstrained dual jobholders, we separate individuals who moonlight because of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003253454
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Whose preferences are revealed in hours of work?
Pencavel, John H. - 2015
It has become orthodox in economics research to interpret the association between hourly earnings and working hours as the expression of the preferences of workers. This convention originated in H. Gregg Lewis' explanation for the decline in hours of work since the nineteenth century. His...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295551
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Remote work, wages, and hours worked in the United States
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2023
higher wages than those working on-site, and the difference increased sharply during the pandemic. Real wages grew 4 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014338433
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Taxes, wages and working hours
Ericson, Peter; Flood, Lennart - 2011
This paper presents estimates of individuals' responses in hourly wages to changes in marginal tax rates. Estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379594
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Labour-market institutions and the dispersion of wage earnings
Salverda, Wiemer; Checchi, Daniele - 2014
Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360090
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Negative and positive assimilation by prices and by quantities
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2013
This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment probability, unemployment probability, and hours worked per week). Using the 2006 Australian Census of Population and Housing the analyses are performed separately by gender, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740293
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Income taxes, gross hourly wages, and the anatomy of behavioral responses : evidence from a Danish tax reform
Sumiya, Kazuhiko; Bagger, Jesper - 2022
This paper provides quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of income taxes on gross hourly wages by utilizing … effects across income levels. For low-income workers, taxes have negative and dynamic effects on wages. Their elasticity of … wages (with respect to net-of-marginal-tax rates) is close to one. For higher-income workers, the effects are small and …
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Husbands' wages and married women's labor supply in urban China
Mengbing, Zhu; Li, Yi; Xing, Chunbing - 2023
This study examines the impact of husbands' wages on their wives' labor force participation rates and hours worked in … urban China from 1995 to 2018. We find that an increase in husbands' wages reduces the labor force participation rate of … more than her husband - strengthens the income effect of husbands' wages. The labor supply effect of husbands' wages is …
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Hours, employment, and earnings of American manufacturing workers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries
Pencavel, John H. - 2021
For a century, two labor market empirical regularities characterized the movements of the hours of work, employment, and hourly compensation of American manufacturing production workers. They resembled conditional labor supply functions. Increases in employment substituted for reductions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486121
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What factors affect doctors' hours decisions : comparing structural discrete choice and reduced-form approaches
Kalb, Guyonne; Kuehnle, Daniel; Scott, Anthony; Cheng, … - 2015
Few papers examine the pecuniary and non-pecuniary determinants of doctors' labour supply despite substantial predicted shortages in many OECD countries. We contribute to the literature by applying both a structural discrete choice and a reduced-form approach. Using detailed survey data for...
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