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Individual and Aggregate Labor Supply with Coordinated Working Times
Rogerson, Richard - 2010
I analyze two extensions to the standard model of life cycle labor supply that feature operative choices along both the intensive and extensive margin. The first assumes that individuals face different continuous wage-hours schedules. The second assumes that all work must be coordinated across...
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The Real Effects of Hedge Fund Activism : Productivity, Asset Allocation, and Labor Outcomes
Brav, Alon - 2011
. We further find that employees of target firms experience a reduction in work hours and stagnation in wages despite an …
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Hours and Wages
Bick, Alexander - 2020
-sectional distribution of usual weekly hours and hourly wages. First, usual weekly hours are heavily concentrated around 40 hours, while at … wages are non-monotonic across the usual hours distribution, with a peak for those working 50 hours. The novel feature of …
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Modeling Earnings Dynamics
Altonji, Joseph G. - 2009
heterogeneity, job-specific error components in both wages and hours, and measurement error. We use the model to address a number of … important questions in labor economics, including the source of the experience profile of wages, the response of job changes to …-specific error components in wages and hours …
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On the Covariance Structure of Earnings and Hours Changes
Abowd, John M.; Card, David - 2021
This paper presents an empirical analysis of changes in individual earnings and hours over time. Using longitudinal data from three panel surveys,we catalogue the main features of the covariance structure of changes in earnings and hours. We then present an interpretation of these features in...
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Work Hours, Wages, and Vacation Leave
Altonji, Joseph G.; Usui, Emiko - 2021
Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the Health and Retirement Study, we provide a set of facts about vacation leave and its relationship to hours worked, hours constraints, wage rates, worker characteristics, spouse's vacation leave, labor market experience, job tenure, occupation,...
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The Wage and the Length of the Work Day : From the 1890s to 1991
Costa, Dora L. - 2021
I investigate how the relationship between the wage and the length of the work day has changed since the 1890s among prime-aged men and women. I find that across wage deciles deciles, and within industry and occupation groups the most highly paid worked fewer hours than the lowest paid in the...
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The Response of Wages and Actual Hours Worked to the Reductions of Standard Hours
Hunt, Jennifer - 2021
A transformation of what had become a universal 40 hour standard work week in Germany began in 1985 with reductions negotiated in the metal-working and printing sectors. These reductions have continued through 1995, and were followed by reductions in other sectors. The union campaign aimed to...
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Labor Market Responses to Rising Health Insurance Costs : Evidence on Hours Worked
Cutler, David M.; Madrian, Brigitte C. - 2021
Increases in the cost of providing health insurance must have some effect on labor markets, either in lower wages … wages, we document in this paper a significant effect on work hours as well. Using data from the CPS and the SIPP, we show …
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Shirking or Productive Schmoozing : Wages and the Allocation of Time at Work
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2021
Major strands of recent macroeconomic theory hinge on the relation of workers' efforts to their wages, but there has … include detailed time diaries to examine how changes in the use of time on the job affect wages. Additional time spent by the …
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