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The Labor Supply of Self-Employed Workers: The Choice of Working Hours in Worker Co-ops
Pencavel, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
about the length of their working hours. In this paper, their choice of hours is characterized as a conventional labor … supply decision and a familiar hours-wage relationship is derived. This is estimated using mill-year observations on the …-employed workers and with working hours in capitalist plywood mills. …
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Accounting for Labor Gaps
Langot, François; Pizzo, Alessandra - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2015
of employment) and the intensive one (the hours worked per worker). We show that the dynamics of the taxes have an impact … mainly on the hours worked while labor market institutions have a large influence on the rate of employment. However, our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268208
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Minimum Wage Effects in the Longer Run
Neumark, David; Nizalova, Olena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Exposure to minimum wages at young ages may lead to longer-run effects. Among the possible adverse longer-run effects are decreased labor market experience and accumulation of tenure, lower current labor supply because of lower wages, and diminished training and skill acquisition. Beneficial...
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The Gender Wage Gap and Discrimination, East Germany 1990-1997
Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2000
East Germany underwent rapid transition from a socialist to a market economy since the fall of the Berlin Wall. We are interested in whether women are better off or worse off relative to men as a result of this transition. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel Data 1990-1997 to study wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005800387
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The effect of informal care on work and wages
Houtven, Courtney Harold Van; Coe, Norma B.; Skira, … - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 1, pp. 240-252
retired. For female care providers who remain working, we find evidence that they decrease work by 3–10hours per week and face … a 3 percent lower wage than non-caregivers. We find little effect of caregiving on working men's hours or wages. These …
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Time-Constraint and Socio-Demographic Characteristics of population in Romania
Istrate, Georgeta-Marinela; Caragea, Nicoleta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Even though you are not an economist or perhaps a psychologist, you surely thought that all the tasks you have to arisen in a single day you must use only twenty-four hour day or just lower. The objective of this study is to measure the time used by Romanian people, in correlation to social and...
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Time Spent for Education – A Key Resource in the Social and Economic Development
Istrate, Georgeta-Marinela; Caragea, Nicoleta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Education - in every sense - is one of the fundamental factors of development. It provides a foundation for the economic and social wellbeing. Time spent in education is the key to increasing economic efficiency and social consistency. Of all the resources, time is the most valued and it can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257833
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Documentation IZAΨMOD v3.0: The IZA Policy Simulation Model
Loeffler, Max; Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Siegloch, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper describes IZAΨMOD, the policy microsimulation model of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). The model uses household microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and firm data from the German linked employer-employee dataset LIAB. IZAΨMOD consists of three components:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990920
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Welfare Programs and Labor Supply in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Latin America
Alzúa, María Laura; Cruces, Guillermo; Ripani, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
a small positive effect on the number of hours worked by female beneficiaries and a sizeable increase in wages among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990921
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Introduction and Overview
Houseman, Susan N.; Nakamura, Alice - In: Working Time in Comparative Perspective, Volume 2: …
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