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Not working at work: Loafing, unemployment and labor productivity

Burda, Michael C.; Genadek, Katie; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015

-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While the average time spent by workers in non …-work conditional on any positive non-work rises with the unemployment rate, the fraction of workers who report time in non-work varies … amounts of non-work with wage rates and measures of unemployment benefits in state data linked to the ATUS, and it is …

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The distribution of total work in the EU and US

Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - 2006

Using two time-diary data sets each for Germany, Italy the Netherlands and the U.S. from 1985-2003, we demonstrate that Americans work more than Europeans: 1) in the market; 2) in total (market and home production) - there is no one-for-one tradeoff across countries in total work; 3) at unusual...

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Employment duration and resistance to wage reductions: Experimental evidence

Burda, Michael C.; Güth, Werner; Kirchsteiger, Georg; … - 1998

increases in unemployment. Put differently, if the competitive market wage declines, why don't employers simply force their …

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Social Security Contributions and the Business Cycle

Almosova, Anna; Burda, Michael C.; Voigts, Simon - 2017

This paper examines magnitudes and business cycle dynamics of social security contributions (SSC). In most OECD countries studied, we document a negative covariation of payroll tax burdens with GDP and GDP growth at business cycle and lower frequencies. We assess the overall magnitude of the...

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Zero-Hours Contracts in a Frictional Labor Market

Dolado, Juan J.; Lalé, Etienne; Turon, Hélène - 2021

We propose a model to evaluate the U.K.'s zero-hours contract (ZHC) – a contract that exempts employers from the requirement to provide any minimum working hours, and allows employees to decline any workload. We find quantitatively that ZHCs improve welfare by enabling firms with more volatile...

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School Closures and Effective In-Person Learning during COVID-19: When, Where, and for Whom

Kurmann, André; Lalé, Etienne - 2022

We match cell phone data to administrative school records and combine it with information on school learning modes to study effective in-person learning (EIPL) in the U.S. during the pandemic. We find large differences in EIPL for the 2020-21 school year. Public schools averaged less EIPL than...

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The fiscal and welfare effects of policy responses to the Covid-19 school closures

Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Krueger, Dirk; Kurmann, André; … - 2021

Using a structural life-cycle model and data on school visits from Safegraph and school closures from Burbio, we quantify the heterogeneous impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming from households with different parental...

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The fiscal and welfare effects of policy responses to the Covid-19 school closures

Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Krueger, Dirk; Kurmann, André; … - 2021

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School closures and effective in-person learning during COVID-19: When, where, and for whom

Kurmann, André; Lalé, Etienne - 2022

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Zero-hours contracts in a frictional labor market

Dolado, Juan J.; Lalé, Etienne; Turon, Hélène - 2022

We propose a model to evaluate the U.K.'s zero-hours contract (ZHC) - a contract that exempts employers from the requirement to provide any minimum working hours, and allows workers to decline any workload. We find quantitatively mixed welfare effects of ZHCs. On one hand they unlock job...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013359368