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How do marital status, wage rates, and work commitment interact?
Ahituv, Avner (contributor);  … - 2005
How marriage interacts with men's earnings is an important public policy issue, given debates over programs to directly … encourage healthy marriages. This paper generates new findings about the earnings-marriage relationship by estimating the … linkages between marriage, work commitment, and wage rates. Unlike other studies of the marital wage premium for men, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003039638
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How do marital status, work effort, and wage rates interact?
Ahituv, Avner; Lerman, Robert Irving - In: Demography : a publication of the Population … 44 (2007) 3, pp. 623-647
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003666983
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The rise in absenteeism : disentangling the impacts of cohort, age and time
Biørn, Erik; Gaure, Simen; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2010
We examine the remarkable rise in absenteeism among Norwegian employees since the early 1990's, with particular emphasis on disentangling the roles of cohort, age, and time. Based on a fixed effects model, we show that individual age-adjusted absence propensities have risen even more than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779991
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Habit formation, work ethics, and technological progress
Faria, João Ricardo (contributor);  … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Work ethics affects labor supply. This idea is modeled assuming that work is habit forming. This paper introduces working habits in a neoclassical growth model and compares its outcomes with a model without habit formation. In addition, it analyzes the impact of different forms of technical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001723934
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Habit Formation, Work Ethics, and Technological Progress
Faria, Joao Ricardo; Leon-Ledesma, Miguel A. - 2003
Work ethics affects labor supply. This idea is modeled assuming that work is habit forming. This paper introduces working habits in a neoclassical growth model and compares its outcomes with a model without habit formation. In addition, it analyzes the impact of different forms of technical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087552
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Perceived unfairness in CEO compensation and work morale
Cornelißen, Thomas; Himmler, Oliver; Koenig, Tobias - 2009
CEO compensation that is perceived to be excessive regularly causes agitation in the population. Using German data, we show that perceiving CEO pay to be unjust has economic repercussions in terms of lower work morale. -- Fairness ; Social Comparisons ; Work Morale
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003930801
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Not working at work : loafing, unemployment and labor productivity
Burda, Michael C.; Genadek, Katie R.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015
Using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) 2003-12, we estimate time spent by workers in non-work while on the job. Non-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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280688
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Not working at work : loafing, unemployment and labor productivity
Burda, Michael C.; Genadek, Katie; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015
Using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) 2003-12, we estimate time spent by workers in non-work while on the job. Non-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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011296782
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Looking inside the labor market : a review article
Howitt, Peter - In: Journal of economic literature 40 (2002) 1, pp. 125-138
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The wage effects of being raised in the Catholic religion : does religion matter?
Ewing, Bradley T. - In: The American journal of economics and sociology 59 (2000) 3, pp. 419-432
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