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the reduced earnings, work hours, and wages of these displaced workers can be attributed to factors specific to pre- and … deficit of displaced workers can be attributed roughly 40 percent to reduced hourly wages and 60 percent to reduce work hours … losses and nearly 25 percent of lower long-term hourly wages. For workers displaced from employers paying top …
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headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and wages. We find that migraine headache is associated with a decrease in … wages. However, there is little evidence that migraine headache leads to reductions in labor force participation or hours … worked. We conclude that estimates of the cost of migraine headache to society should include its impact on wages. …
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The standard literature on working time has modelled the decisions of firms in a deterministic framework in which firms can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we follow the real options approach, which allows us to investigate the...
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In Deutschland liegen die von abhängig Beschäftigten gewünschten Wochenarbeitszeiten im Durchschnitt zwischen knapp 30 Stunden (Frauen) und 40 Stunden (Männer). Sehr lange Wochenarbeitszeiten sind weder für eine Mehrheit von Frauen noch für Männer attraktiv; diesen Befund findet man auch...
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In this paper we describe the hypothesis of effort-based career opportunities as a situation in which profit maximizing firms create incentives for employees to work longer hours than the bargained ones, by making career prospects dependent on working hours. When effortbased career opportunities...
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France has experienced massive changes in its regulation of working time during the last decade. These changes generate natural experiments that may help to study a variety of issues in labor economics, including work sharing effect on job creation or productivity, labor relations or adaptation...
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macroeconomic thought, is that real wages during the cycle containing the Great Depression are either acyclical or countercyclical …
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wages received for hours worked overtime. The goal of the policy was to increase the number of hours worked. This article …
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Arbeitszeitkonten ermöglichen eine variable Arbeitszeitverteilung in Betrieben, womit sich Nachfrageschwankungen abfedern und der Arbeitseinsatz an das Arbeitsaufkommen anpassen lassen. Im Zuge der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise 2008/09 wurden sie umfangreich genutzt, um Arbeitszeiten...
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Die COVID-19-Krise verändert die Arbeitswelt. Der Lockdown zur Eindämmung der Pandemie ging in den Betrieben mit der weitgehenden Umstellung auf die Arbeit im "Homeoffice" einher: die Nutzung der betrieblichen Räume wurde stark eingeschränkt, Besprechungen wurden größtenteils auf...
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