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Job Re-Grading, Real Wages, and the Cycle

Hart, Robert A. - 2011

more procyclical than job stayers. This lends support to the predicted procyclical real wage effects of the Reynolds … exhibit the same degrees of wage cyclicality and these are considerably greater than for job stayers …

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Piece Work Pay and Hourly Pay Over the Cycle

Hart, Robert A. - 2021

This paper investigates the relative cyclical behavior of the pay of piece workers and hourly paid workers. It uses a unique data set of blue-collar workers in British engineering between 1926 and 1966. The statistics are obtained from the payrolls of firms belonging to the Engineering Employers...

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Real Wages, Working Time, and the Great Depression : What Does Micro Evidence Tell Us?

Hart, Robert A. - 2010

groups are broken down into 14 occupations, and 48 travel-to-work geographical districts. We estimate wage and hours …

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A Good Time to Stay Out? Strikes and the Business Cycle

Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - 2021

In this paper, we compile a unique historical dataset that records strike activity in the British engineering industry from 1920 to 1970. These data have the advantage of containing a fairly homogenous set of companies and workers, covering a long period with varying labour market conditions,...

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Job Spells, Employer Spells, and Wage Returns to Tenure

Devereux, Paul J. - 2013

encompass between-job wage movements linked to promotions or demotions while job spells don't. Using a 1% sample of the British … any positive effects of job-specific human capital on wage growth within jobs are outweighed by the effects of job changes …

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Labor Productivity During the Great Depression in UK Manufacturing

Hart, Robert A. - 2019

This paper provides estimates of labor productivity for one-third of UK manufacturing during the Great Depression. It covers engineering and allied industries, and metal working industries. A unique data set of actual hours of work is combined with comparable real output and employment...

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Labour Productivity During the Great Depression and the Great Recession in UK Engineering and Metal Manufacture

Hart, Robert A. - 2020

This paper compares labour productivity during the Great Depression (GD) and the Great Recession (GR) in engineering, metal working and allied industries. Throughout, it distinguishes between output per worker and output per hour. From the peak-to-trough of the GD cycle, hourly labour...

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Real Wage Cyclicality of Female Stayers and Movers in Part-Time and Full-Time Jobs

Hart, Robert A. - 2021

Based on the British New Earnings Survey Panel Data for 1975-2001, this paper investigates the real hourly wage … cyclicality of part-time and full-time females. Relative degrees of wage responsiveness are estimated in respect of job stayers …

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Overtime Working and Contract Efficiency

Hart, Robert A. - 2013

We present a wage-hours contract designed to minimize costly job turnover given investments in on the job training … marginal product while the basic hourly wage is less than the value of marginal product. Third, the basic hourly wage is …

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Wage-Hours Contracts, Overtime Working and Premium Pay

Hart, Robert A.; Ma, Yui - 2021

premium pay. We expand on the wage contract literature that emphasises the role of firm-specific human capital and that … explore a simple wage-hours contract without overtime and show that incorporating hours into the contract may itself produce … efficiency. Our modelling outcomes in respect of the relationship between the overtime premium and the standard wage rate relate …

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