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A post-deregulation analysis of wages in US freight transportation

Habermalz, Steffen (contributor); … - 2007

"After a period of regulatory changes in the early 1980s we are faced with "new" freight transportation labor markets in the U.S. Using data from the 1984-1999 Current Population Survey, we examine trends in the wages of workers within freight transportation, with a focus on wage differentials...

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The third worker : assessing the trade-off between employees and contractors

Martins, Pedro S. - 2016

Firms make labour demand decisions not only between permanent and non-permanent employees but also increasingly more between employees and contractors. Indeed, this third work format can be attractive, also when employment protection law is restrictive. This paper examines empirically this...

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Does the statutory overtime premium discourage long workweeks?

Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001

Using a pooled data set consisting of 20 annual observations on each of eleven major industry groups, I estimate the effects of overtime pay regulation on weekly work schedules. After controlling for workweek trends within industries, the sharp expansions in overtime pay coverage resulting from...

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Wages and hours laws : what do we know? What can be done?

Brown, Charles C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2019

We summarize recent research on the wage and employment effects of minimum wage laws in the U.S. and infer from non-U.S. studies of hours laws the likely effects of unchanging U.S. hours laws. Minimum wages in the U.S. have increasingly become a province of state governments, with the effective...

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Population aging, age discrimination, and age discrimination protections at the 50th Anniversary of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act

Button, Patrick - 2019

This paper discusses population aging, increased participation of seniors in the labor force in the United States (and reasons for this), and how these trends are making the struggles of older workers in the labor market increasingly relevant. Evidence examining whether age discrimination is a...

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Suffrage, labour markets and coalitions in colonial virginia

Nikolova, Elena; Nikolova, Milena - 2016

We study Virginia's suffrage from the early 17th century until the American Revolution using an analytical narrative … market dynamics. Indeed, Virginia’s liberal institutions initially served to attract indentured servants from England needed … with slaves. Second, we argue that Virginia's suffrage was also the result of political bargaining influenced by shifting …

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Job protection legislation and productivity growth in OECD countries

Bassanini, Andrea (contributor); Nunziata, Luca (contributor) - 2008

This paper examines the impact of employment protection legislation on productivity in the OECD, using annual cross-country aggregate data on the degree of regulations and industry-level data on productivity from 1982 to 2003. We adopt a "difference-in-differences" framework, which exploits...

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Do wages compensate for anticipated working time restrictions? : Evidence from seasonal employment in Austria

Del Bono, Emilia (contributor); Weber, Andrea (contributor) - 2006

In this paper we investigate the existence of compensating wage differentials across seasonal and non seasonal jobs, which arise due to anticipated working time restrictions. We build on a theoretical model by Abowd and Ashenfelter (1981), which links the compensating wage differential to...

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Do changes in regulation affect employment duration in temporary work agencies?

Antoni, Manfred (contributor); Jahn, Elke J. (contributor) - 2006

Over the past three decades Germany has repeatedly deregulated the law on temporary agency work by stepwise increasing the maximum period for hiring-out employees and allowing temporary work agencies to conclude fixed-term contracts. These reforms should have had an effect on the employment...

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Labour contract regulations and workers’ wellbeing : international longitudinal evidence

Salvatori, Andrea - 2010

All industrialized countries have Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) for permanent workers and Restrictions on the use of Temporary Employment (RTE). The (ambiguous) effects of these on the levels of employment and unemployment have been extensively studied, but nothing is known empirically...

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