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The measurement of labour content: A general approach

Yoshihara, Naoki; Veneziani, Roberto - 2013

This paper analyses the theoretical issues related to the measurement of labour content in the context of general technologies with heterogeneous labour. A novel axiomatic framework is used in order to formulate the key properties of the notion of labour content and analyse its theoretical...

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The Measurement of Labour Content: A General Approach

Yoshihara, Naoki; Veneziani, Roberto - 2013

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The measurement of labour content: A general approach

Yoshihara, Naoki; Veneziani, Roberto - 2017

This paper analyses the theoretical issues related to the measurement of labour content for general technologies with heterogeneous labour. A novel axiomatic framework is used in order to formulate the key properties of the notion of labour content and analyse its theoretical foundations. The...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011788917

Earnings on the information technology roller coaster: insight from matched employer-employee data

Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, M. Melinda; Robertson, John C. - 2005

This paper uses matched employer-employee data for the state of Georgia to examine workers’ earnings experience through the information technology (IT) sector’s employment boom of the mid-1990s and its bust in the early 2000s. The results show that even after controlling for individual...

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Wage gains among job changers across the business cycle:> insight from state administrative data

Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, M. Melinda; Robertson, John C. - 2004

This paper uses unique employer-employee matched administrative data files to determine that firm and industry employment dynamics play significant roles in the earnings gains of workers who change jobs and in different ways across the business cycle. Among the more notable results is the...

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The dynamics of the smoking wage penalty

Darden, Michael E.; Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, M. Melinda - 2020

trajectory of wages is being developed. We estimate the model with data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 … for unobserved heterogeneity in the joint determination of smoking, human capital, labor supply, and wages, suggest that …, respectively. These differences are less than half of the raw mean difference in wages at age 30. We show that the contemporaneous …

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Why choose women's work if it pays less? A structural model of occupational choice

Pitts, M. Melinda - 2002

similar or higher expected wages in their chosen occupation compared to nonfemale-dominated occupations. This result indicates …

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Is the persistent gender gap in income and wages due to unequal family responsibilities?

Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per; Lindahl, Erica - 2013

born, the male-female gender gaps in income and wages have increased with 35 and 10 percentage points, respectively. In … line with a collective labor supply model, the magnitude of these effects depends on relative incomes or wages within the …

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Can sickness absence be affected by information meetings? Evidence from a social experiment

Johansson, Per; Lindahl, Erica - 2010

During the last decade several empirical studies have stressed the importance of norms and social interactions for explaining sickness absence behavior. In this context public discussions about the intentions of the insurance, and of the rights and duties of the receivers, may be important for...

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Gender differences in sickness absence and the gender division of family responsibilities

Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per; Lindahl, Erica - 2013

This study investigates possible reasons for the gender difference in sickness absence. We estimate both short- and long-term effects of parenthood in a within-couple analysis based on the timing of parenthood. We find that after entering parenthood, women increase their sickness absence by...

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