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On the Covariance Structure of Earnings and Hours Changes
Abowd, John M. - 1986
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477244
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Tied Wage-Hours Offers and the Endogeneity of Wages
Lundberg, Shelly J. - 1984
implements a pair of tests for the exogeneity of wages in a longitudinal labor supply model, and for the particular failure of … hours Granger -- cause wages at the individual level. The second test involves a simultaneous estimation of labor supply and … from the process generating wages, even when long time series are available on a sample of individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477658
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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/10012462022
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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/10012463904
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Shirking or Productive Schmoozing : Wages and the Allocation of Time at Work
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1988
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/10012476258
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Employment, Hours, and Earnings in the Depression : An Analysis of EightManufacturing Industries
Bernanke, Ben - 1985
puzzle of increasing real wages during a period of high unemployment …
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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/10012479246
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Work Hours, Wages, and Vacation Leave
Altonji, Joseph G. - 2005
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466979
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The Wage and the Length of the Work Day : From the 1890s to 1991
Costa, Dora L. - 1998
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472299
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The Unequal Work Day : A Long-Term View
Costa, Dora L. - 1998
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472389