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Markets for Reputation : Evidence on Quality and Quantity in Academe

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2009

We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by oneﾒs peers and others. The central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation independent of their quality? and 2) Assuming that overall quality matters for reputation, does the...

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Not Working at Work : Loafing, Unemployment and Labor Productivity

Burda, Michael C. - 2015

amounts of non-work with wage rates and measures of unemployment benefits in state data linked to the ATUS, and it is …

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Aggregate Impacts of a Gift of Time

Lee, Jungmin - 2011

How would people spend additional time if confronted by permanent declines in market work? We examine the impacts of cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan around 1990 and Korea in the early 2000s. Using time-diaries from before and after these shocks,...

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Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production

Burda, Michael C. - 2009

Using time-diary data from four countries we show that the unemployed spend most of the time not working for pay in additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment duration and the split of time between household...

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The Distribution of Total Work in the EU and Us

Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - 2021

Using two time-diary data sets each for Germany, Italy the Netherlands and the U.S. from 1985-2003, we demonstrate that Americans work more than Europeans: 1) in the market; 2) in total (market and home production) - there is no one-for-one tradeoff across countries in total work; 3) at unusual...

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Why are Professors 'Poorly Paid'?

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2018

Using Current Population Survey data, I demonstrate a 15-percentage point wage disadvantage among academics compared to … accounts for as much as one-third of the wage disadvantage. Survey data (of economists only) indicate that flexible scheduling …

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Racial/Ethnic Differences in Non-Work at Work

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2017

/ethnic representation. The findings imply that measures of the adjusted wage disadvantages of minority employees are overstated by about 10 …

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Taking Time Use Seriously : Income, Wages and Price Discrimination

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2018

The American Time Use Survey 2003-15, the French Enquête Emploi du Temps, 2009-10, and the German Zeitverwendungserhebung, 2012-13, have sufficient observations to allow examining the theory of household production in much more detail than ever before. We identify income effects on time use by...

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Cycles of Wage Discrimination

Biddle, Jeff - 2011

Using CPS data from 1979-2009 we examine how cyclical downturns and industry-specific demand shocks affect wage … opposite-signed mechanisms that affect these wage differentials. It suggests greater absolute effects among job-movers, which …

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Wage Discrimination Over the Business Cycle

Biddle, Jeff - 2012

Using CPS data from 1979-2009 we examine how cyclical downturns and industry-specific demand shocks affect wage …-Hispanic whites. Women's relative earnings are harmed by negative shocks; the wage disadvantage of African-Americans drops with … disadvantage of bad-looking workers. A theory of job search suggests two opposite-signed mechanisms that affect these wage …

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