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Decent work and the quality of work and employment
Green, Francis - 2021
This review examines the concept of the quality of work and employment (QWE), including both 'Decent Work' and the narrower concept of 'job quality'. The key axiom is that 'quality' relates to the extent and manner in which working conditions meet people's needs from work. The review emphasises...
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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 …
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The dynamics of working hours and wages under implicit contracts
Guerrazzi, Marco; Giribone, Pier Giuseppe - 2021
In this paper, we explore the dynamics of working hours and wages in a model economy where a firm and its workforce are … solutions rely on factors that usually determine the enforceability of contracts and we provide evidence that wages tend to move …-cyclical pattern of wages but is helpful in explaining their dynamic behaviour in response to demand shocks as well as their typical …
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Constrained vs unconstrained labor supply : the economics of dual job holding
Choe, Chung; Oaxaca, Ronald L.; Renna, Francesco - 2017
This paper develops a unified model of dual and unitary job holding based on a Stone-Geary utility function. The model incorporates both constrained and unconstrained labor supply. Panel data methods are adapted to accommodate unobserved heterogeneity and multinomial selection into 6 mutually...
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Impacts of COVID-19 on the self-employed
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2021
This study estimates random effects and difference-in-difference-in-differences models to examine the initial impacts of COVID-19 on the employment and hours of unincorporated self-employed workers using monthly panel data from the Current Population Survey. For these workers, effects were...
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Home sweet home : working from home and employee performance during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK
Deole, Sumit S.; Deter, Max; Huang, Yue - 2021
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced governments in many countries to ask employees to work from home (WFH) where possible. Using representative data from the UK, we show that increases in WFH frequency are associated with a higher self-perceived productivity per hour and an increase in weekly...
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The intensity of COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions and labor market outcomes in the public sector
Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2020
This paper examines whether the intensity of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) during the COVID-19 pandemic has differentially impacted the public sector labor market outcomes. This extends the analysis of the already documented negative economic consequences from COVID-19 and their...
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Hours worked of the self-employed and agglomeration
Cai, Zhengyu - 2018
This paper investigates the causal effects of agglomeration on hours worked by the self-employed. The IV estimations instrument for urbanization and localization using the minimum distance from the work Public Use Microdata Area centroid to the United States' coastlines and estimated industry...
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Economic effects of overtime premium flexibility : firm- and worker-level evidence from a law reform
Martins, Pedro S. - 2017
In 2012, a new law allowed firms in Portugal to reduce the overtime premium paid by half. Until then, as in other countries, premiums were subject to a minimum level. We analyse matched panel data, including worker-level (base and overtime) hours and pay, to study the effects of the resulting...
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Motherhood, migration, and self-employment of college graduates
Cai, Zhengyu; Stephens, Heather M.; Winters, John V. - 2019
Women face unique challenges in starting and running their own businesses and may have differing motives to men for pursuing self-employment. Previous research suggests that married women with families value the flexibility that self-employment can offer, allowing them to balance their family...
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