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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764833
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245323
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134860
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842474
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119570
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Employment, Hours, and Earnings in the Depression : an Analysis of Eightmanufacturing Industries
Bernanke, Ben - 2010
puzzle of increasing real wages during a period of high unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141628
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The Unequal Work Day : A Long-Term View
Costa, Dora L. - 2022
I investigate how the distribution of daily hours worked among prime-aged men has changed since the 1890s by occupational and industrial group and by the hourly wage. I find that although hours of work have fallen for all workers, the decline was disproportionately large among the lowest paid...
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Employment, Hours, and Earnings in the Depression : an Analysis of Eightmanufacturing Industries
Bernanke, Ben - 2021
puzzle of increasing real wages during a period of high unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310022
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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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