-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 …

displaying balanced growth. The key feature of the utility function is an income effect (of higher wages) that slightly outweighs …

, theory, casual empiricism and survey data suggest that many workers are not free to vary the hours within a job. Consequently …

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 …

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 …

second moments of the joint distribution over individual wages, consumption and hours …