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Women Doing Men's Work and Women Doing Women's Work : Female Work and Pay in British Wartime Engineering
Hart, Robert A. - 2005
engineering employment in 1939 to 35.2% by 1943. Women were officially classified into those doing men's work and those doing … women's work. Using a unique data set provided by the Engineering Employers Federation, this paper examines female work and … previously undertaken. It features the pay and hours of piece- and time-rated women, female-male wage ratios, and an assessment …
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Hours and wages in the depression : British engineering, 1926-1938
Hart, Robert A. - 2000
On their intensive margins, firms in the British engineering industry adjusted to the severe falls in demand during the 1930s Depression by cutting hours of work. This provided an important means of reducing labour input and marginal labour costs, through movements from overtime to short-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325987
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Hours and wages in the depression : British engineering, 1926 - 1938
Hart, Robert A. - 2000
On their intensive margins, firms in the British engineering industry adjusted to the severe falls in demand during the 1930s Depression by cutting hours of work. This provided an important means of reducing labour input and marginal labour costs, through movements from overtime to short-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001471784
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Hours and wages in the Depression : British engineering, 1926 - 1938
Hart, Robert A. - In: Explorations in economic history : EEH 38 (2001) 4, pp. 478-502
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Hours and Wages in the Depression : British Engineering, 1926-1938
Hart, Robert A. - 2021
On their intensive margins, firms in the British engineering industry adjusted to the severe falls in demand during the 1930s Depression by cutting hours of work. This provided an important means of reducing labour input and marginal labour costs, through movements from overtime to short-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321306
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Multiple job-holding as a "Hedge" against unemployment
Bell, David N. F.; Hart, Robert A.; Wright, Robert E. - 1997
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Overtime working in an unregulated labour market
Bell, David N. F.; Hart, Robert A. - 1999
Using individual-level data on male non-managerial workers from the 1996 British New Earnings Survey, we estimate overtime hours and average premium pay equations. Among other issues, four broad questions are of central importance. (a) What are the impacts of straight-time pay and hours on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001378248
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Tenure-based wage setting
Hart, Robert A.; Ritchie, Felix - 1999
We provide empirical support for the contention that within-job wage growth relates purely to job-specific performance and that returns to general experience are assessed at the point of job change. Using the British New Earnings Survey panel data we identify job changes that take place both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001378282
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The cost of overtime hours in British production industries
Hart, Robert A. - In: Economica 60 (1993) 238, pp. 183-201
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Excess labour and the business cycle : a comparative study of Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States
Hart, Robert A. - In: Economica 63 (1996) 250, pp. 325-342
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