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Lock-Downs, Loneliness and Life Satisfaction
Hamermesh, Daniel - 2020
Using the 2012-13 American Time Use Survey, I find that both who people spend time with and how they spend it affect their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases most with additional time spent with spouse. Among...
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Educational Mismatch Among Ph.D.S : Determinants and Consequences
Bender, Keith A. - 2010
Using the Survey of Doctoral Recipients, the magnitude and consequences of job mismatch are estimated for Ph.D.s in science. Approximately one-sixth of academics and nearly one-half of nonacademics report some degree of mismatch. The influence of job mismatch is estimated for three job outcomes:...
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Does Rosie Like Riveting? Male and Female Occupational Choices
Lordan, Grace - 2016
Occupational segregation and pay gaps by gender remain large while many of the constraints traditionally believed to be responsible for these gaps have weakened over time. Here, we explore the possibility that women and men have different tastes for the content of the work they do. We run...
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The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2022
The distribution of job satisfaction widened across cohorts of young men in the United States between 1978 and 1988, and between 1978 and 1996, in ways correlated with changing wage inequality. Satisfaction among workers in upper earnings quantiles rose relative to that of workers in lower...
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Employment, Wages, and Unionism in a Model of the Aggregate Labor Market in Britain
Pencavel, John H. - 2010
-defined negative causal relationship from wages to employment with the features of a conventional labor demand function. Using …
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Do Large Modern Retailers Pay Premium Wages?
Cardiff-Hicks, Brianna - 2014
manufacturing jobs have shrunk in number. In this paper, we characterize the wages that have accompanied the growth in retail. We …
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Paycheck Receipt and the Timing of Consumption
Stephens, Melvin - 2021
This paper examines the consumption response to monthly paycheck receipt. Since the amount and arrival date of paychecks are known in advance, the receipt of a paycheck does not coincide with the receipt of new information. Under the basic rational expectations Life-Cycle/Permanent Income...
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Wage and Employment Determinants Under Trade Unionism : The Internationaltypographical Union
Dertouzos, J.N; Pencavel, John H. - 2021
literature for over thirty years. The wages and employment o typographers are examined to see whether they can be usefully … characterized as the outcome of a process by which the union maximizes an objective function containing wages and employment and is … wages and employment of these workers compared with our more general formulation …
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Optimal Wage Re-Negotiation
Aizenman, Joshua - 2021
This paper investigates an economy in which there are short-term wage contracts that are re-negotiated under certain conditions. This paper determines the optimal frequency of wage re-negotiation and shows that it depends positively on measures of aggregate variability and Phillips curve slope....
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Why U.S. Wage and Employment Behavior Differs from that in Britain and Japan
Gordon, Robert J. - 2021
This paper argues that rigid wages cannot provide the underpinnings of a universally valid theory of the business cycle …, simply because wages are not universally rigid. Several different statistical techniques suggest that wage rates in the U … greater flexibility in wages, these two countries also exhibit more stable employment behavior over the business cycle. In …
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