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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 …
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The Timing of Labor Demand
Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2008
We examine the timing of firms' operations in a formal model of labor demand. Merging a variety of data sets from Portugal from 1995-2004, we describe temporal patterns of firms' demand for labor and estimate production-functions and relative labor-demand equations. The results demonstrate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768129
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Labor Supply in the Past, Present, and Future : A Balanced-Growth Perspective
Boppart, Timo - 2016
What explains how much people work? Going back in time, a main fact to address is the steady reduction in hours worked. The long-run data, for the U.S. as well as for other countries, show a striking pattern whereby hours worked fall steadily by a little below a half of a percent per year,...
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Why are Professors "Poorly Paid"?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2018
Using Current Population Survey data, I demonstrate a 15-percentage point wage disadvantage among academics compared to all other doctorate-holders with the same demographics. Time-diary data show that academics' work hours are distributed more evenly over the week and day, although their total...
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Labor Reallocation and Remote Work During Covid-19 : Real-Time Evidence from Github
McDermott, Grant R.; Hansen, Benjamin - 2022
We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on labor activity using real-time data from millions of GitHub users around the world. We show that the pandemic triggered a sharp pattern of labor reallocation at both the global and regional level. Users were more likely to work on weekends...
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The Effects of Childhood Adhd on Adult Labor Market Outcomes
Fletcher, Jason M. - 2013
While several types of mental illness, including substance abuse disorders, have been linked with poor labor market outcomes, no current research has been able to examine the effects of childhood ADHD. As ADHD has become one of the most prevalent childhood mental conditions, it is useful to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088685
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Work Expectations, Realizations, and Depression in Older Workers
Falba, Tracy - 2008
We explore the impact on depressive symptoms of deviation in actual labor force behavior at age 62 from earlier expectations. Our sample of 4,241 observations is drawn from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We examine workers who were less than 62 years of age at the 1992 HRS baseline, and...
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Economic Conditions and Children's Mental Health
Golberstein, Ezra - 2016
common and consequential health issues for children and adolescents. We examine the effects of unemployment rates and housing …
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Mental Health Stigma
Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2015
Comparing self-reports to administrative data records on diagnosis and prescription drug use, we find that survey respondents under-report mental health conditions 36% of the time when asked about diagnosis and about 20% of the time when asked about prescription drug use. Survey respondents are...
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Not Working at Work : Loafing, Unemployment and Labor Productivity
Burda, Michael C. - 2016
-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While average time spent by workers in non …-work conditional on any positive amount rises with the unemployment rate, the fraction of workers reporting positive values varies pro …-work with wage rates and measures of unemployment benefits in state data linked to the ATUS, and it is consistent with estimated …
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