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Telework and Time Use in the United States

Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2020

Remote work is rapidly increasing in the United States. Using data on full-time wage and salary workers from the 2017–2018 American Time Use Survey Leave and Job Flexibilities Module, this paper examines the characteristics of teleworkers, the effects of teleworking on wages, and differences...

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Telework and Time Use

Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2021

This chapter reviews the evidence on the relationship between telework and households' time allocation, drawing heavily … on the empirical evidence from time diary data, and discusses the implications of telework for workers' productivity …, wages, labor force participation, and well-being. Telework results in significant time savings for workers, as they reduce …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882403

Are we wasting our children's time by giving them more homework?

Eren, Ozkan; Henderson, Daniel J. - 2011

Following an identification strategy that allows us to largely eliminate unobserved student and teacher traits, we examine the effect of homework on math, science, English and history test scores for eighth grade students in the United States. Noting that failure to control for these effects...

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Comparing Apples with Oranges : Revisiting the Gender Wage Gap in an International Perspective

Plasman, Robert; Sissoko, Salimata - 2004

Using a rich and comparable micro-data set, we analyse international differences in gender pay gaps in the private sector for a sample of five European economies: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy and Spain. Using different methods, we examine how wage structure, differences in the distribution...

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Wages and the bargaining regime under multi-level bargaining: Belgium, Denmark and Spain

Plasman, Robert; Rusinek, Michael; Rycx, François - 2006

Using a unique harmonized matched employer-employee dataset (European Structure of Earnings Survey, 1995), we study the impact of the regime of collective bargaining on wages in the manufacturing sector of three countries that are characterized by a multi-level system of bargaining: Belgium,...

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Establishment size and the dispersion of wages: evidence from European countries

Lallemand, Thierry; Rycx, François - 2005

We investigate how the wage distribution differs among small and large establishments in four European countries. Findings show that within-establishment wage dispersion rises with size because large employers have a more diverse workforce. They also suggest that screening and monitoring costs...

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Union density and varieties of coverage: the anatomy of union wage effects in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten; Lembcke, Alexander C. - 2008

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining coverage is much higher than union density; and not all employees in a covered firm are necessarily covered. This institutional setup suggests to explicitly distinguish union...

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The assignment of workers to tasks, wage distribution and technical change: a critical review

Dupuy, Arnaud - 2008

This paper reviews the literature on two-sided atomeless assignment models of workers to tasks. Using simple parametric examples, the fundamental differences between the comparative advantage and the scale of operations models are illustrated. Holding the distributions of abilities and tasks and...

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The East German wage structure after transition

Orlowski, Robert; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2008

We extend the literature on transition economies' wage structures by investigating the returns to tenure and experience. This study applies recent panel data and estimation approaches that control for hitherto neglected biases. We compare the life cycle structure in East and West German wages...

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Evolution of the Chinese rural-urban migrant labor market from 2002 to 2007

Qu, Zhaopeng Frank; Zhao, Zhong - 2011

The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data sets. Our focus is on the rural-urban migration decision, the wage structure of migrants, the urban labor market segmentation between migrants and urban natives, and the changes...

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