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Older Workers and Working Time
Bell, David N. F.; Rutherford, Alasdair C. - 2013
. Using longitudinal data from the UK Labour Force Survey, the paper investigates the effects of overemployment and … underemployment on transitions from employment and self-employment into other labour market states. It confirms that overemployment is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319410
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Older Workers and Working Time
Bell, David N.F.; Rutherford, Alasdair C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
. Using longitudinal data from the UK Labour Force Survey, the paper investigates the effects of overemployment and … underemployment on transitions from employment and self-employment into other labour market states. It confirms that overemployment is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686908
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An age perspective on economic well-being and social protection in nine OECD countries
Dang, Thai-Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2006
This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267998
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Earnings dynamics and inequality among men in Luxembourg, 1988 - 2004: Evidence from administrative data
Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2010
Starting with the late 1980s and intensifying after early 1990s, Luxembourg evolved from an industrial economy to an … extraordinary longitudinal dataset drawn from administrative records on professional career, we decomposed Luxembourg's growth in … Luxembourg are worst off both in terms of their relative wage and in terms of their opportunity of improving their relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269895
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Myth or fact? The beauty premium across the wage distribution
Doorley, Karina; Sierminska, Eva - 2012
. Comparing the effects of beauty and confidence measures in two countries (Germany and Luxembourg), we find that wages are more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283956
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Differential welfare state impacts for frontier working age families
Burlacu, Irina S.; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2012
evaluate the impact of unemployment benefits and income taxation on these frontier workers' welfare in Luxembourg and Belgium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287593
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Worktime regulations and spousal labour supply
Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2011
We investigate spillovers in spousal labour supply exploiting independent variation in hours worked generated by the introduction of the shorter workweek in France in the late 1990s. We find that female and male employees treated by the shorter legal workweek reduce their weekly labour supply by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278450
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Hours of work and retirement behavior
Machado, C. Sofia; Portela, Miguel - 2012
Using a novel dataset from the 2006 Portuguese Labor Force Survey this paper examines the impact of a voluntary reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exit from the labor force. If, as often suggested, flexibility in hours of work is a useful measure to postpone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282150
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Labor demand during the crisis: What happened in Germany?
Bohachova, Olga; Boockmann, Bernhard; Buch, Claudia M. - 2011
In Germany, the employment response to the post-2007 crisis has been muted compared to other industrialized countries. Despite a large drop in output, employment has hardly changed. In this paper, we analyze the determinants of German firms' labor demand during the crisis using a firm-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282281
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More hours, more jobs? The employment effects of longer working hours
Andrews, Martyn J.; Gerner, Hans-Dieter; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2012
Increases in standard hours have been a contentious policy issue in Germany. Whilst this might directly lead to a substitution of workers by hours, there may also be a positive employment effect due to reduced costs. Moreover, the response of firms differs between firms which offer overtime and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283974