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Wage determination in the US airline industry : union power under product market constraints
Hirsch, Barry T. (contributor) - 2006
The paper analyzes wages in the U.S. airline industry, focusing on the role of collective bargaining in a changing … product market environment. Airline unions have considerable strike threat power, but are constrained by the financial health … of carriers. Since airline deregulation, compensation has waxed and waned in response to the industry's economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003384910
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Immigration and work schedules: theory and evidence
Bond, Timothy N.; Giuntella, Osea; Lonsky, Jakub - 2020
price of day tasks increases as their supply becomes relatively more scarce. We provide empirical support for our theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213672
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How do airlines cut fuel usage, reducing their carbon emissions?
Brueckner, Jan K.; Kahn, Matthew E.; Nickelsburg, Jerry - 2023
Airline fuel consumption is costly for the firms and for society as well due to a climate-change externality. We study … externality. The airline industry's capital stock can be easily inventoried as a set of long-lived, durable aircraft. This …. Changes in airline operations directed toward conserving fuel can be an important path toward lower emissions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014286491
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Flexible working and couples' coordination of time schedules
Bryan, Mark L.; Sevilla, Almudena - 2014
Using previously unexploited data on time scheduling in the employment and household contexts, we investigate the effect of flexible working on couples' coordination of their daily work time schedules in the UK. We consider three distinct dimensions of flexible working: flexibility of daily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010379940
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003784408
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Wage-hours contracts, overtime working and premium pay
Hart, Robert A. (contributor); Ma, Yue (contributor) - 2008
This paper offers a contract-based theory to explain the determination of standard hours, overtime hours and overtime … closely to earlier developments in hedonic wage theory. Throughout, we emphasise the intuitive reasoning behind the theory and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771694
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Noncompliance and the effects of the minimum wage on hours and welfare in competitive labor markets
Danziger, Leif - 2009
This paper shows that increases in the minimum wage rate can have ambiguous effects on the working hours and welfare of employed workers in competitive labor markets. The reason is that employers may not comply with the minimum wage legislation and instead pay a lower subminimum wage rate. If...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003897515
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528661
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Relative consumption, working time, and trade unions
Goerke, Laszlo; Hillesheim, Inga - 2013
Status considerations with respect to consumption give rise to negative externalities because individuals do not take into account that their decisions affect the relative consumption position of others. Further, status concerns create incentives for excessive labour supply in competitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763210
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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