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It has become orthodox in economics research to interpret the association between hourly earnings and working hours as the expression of the preferences of workers. This convention originated in H. Gregg Lewis' explanation for the decline in hours of work since the nineteenth century. His...
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States – looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...
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The labor market differs from other markets in many respects. Most important is that those who supply labor also have to deliver it in person. It means firstly that the work environment and organization of work are important for those who deliver labor, since they are in the work place....
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decline in the demand for and the real wages of this group after 2000. We investigate empirically, whether there has been a … education attainment and wages over time, we put a particular focus on changes of the task composition, the chances of entering … top-paying jobs, entry wages and wage growth, and skill premia over time. To allow for a detailed analysis, we distinguish …
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that results are very sensitive to the treatment of hourly wages in the estimation. For example, different (sensible …) choices concerning the modeling of the underlying wage distribution and especially the imputation of (missing) wages lead to …
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observed in the 1980s, with an additional factor being that husbands' real wages fell slightly in the 1980s but rose in the … elasticity. And, continuing past trends, women's labor supply also became less responsive to their husbands' wages. Between 1980 … wages and work hours; and omitted variables that affect both wage offers and the propensity to work; as well as when age …
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Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women's employment rates but decrease their wages in case of …
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elasticities derived from microeconometric models can also be explained by modeling assumptions with respect to wages. Specifically … very sensitive to the treatment of wages. In particular, the often-made but highly restrictive independence assumption … between preferences and wages is key. To overcome this restriction, we propose a flexible estimation strategy that nests …
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urban manufacturing firms. The impact of HIV on average wages is positive but imprecisely estimated. In contrast, HIV has a … large positive impact on the skill premium. The impact of HIV on the wages of low skilled workers is insignificantly …
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immigration and female wages arises partly because the native women who left the labor force had relatively low wages. Adjusting …
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