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mothers to reduce their weekly working hours without renouncing their permanent contract, hence maintaining a regular schedule …. Second, with this work arrangement, working mothers' child penalty declined from a 47 percent drop in hours worked to a 38 …
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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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Prior research suggests that gender differences in hours worked play an important role in the gender pay gap. Yet … common estimates of the wage returns to hours worked are close to zero, implying that hours differences cannot account much … for the gender wage gap, even though men work more hours than women on average. However, while the wage returns to hours …
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For a century, two labor market empirical regularities characterized the movements of the hours of work, employment …. Increases in employment substituted for reductions in hours per worker. The implied elasticities of hours and employment with … understanding movements in hours of work and in employment of these workers. …
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-term losses into components attributable to fewer work hours and to reduced hourly wage rates. We also examine the extent to which … the reduced earnings, work hours, and wages of these displaced workers can be attributed to factors specific to pre- and … displacement can be explained almost entirely by lost work hours; however, five years after displacement, the relative earnings …
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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...
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In times of economic crises, household production, and the unpaid work time associated with it, can serve as a coping mechanism for absorbing the impact of shocks. Evidence from the Great Recession has been supportive of this possibility, and has revealed the presence of gender asymmetries...
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focus on home hours, for a relatively large set of industrialized countries during the past 50 years. Three patterns emerge …. First, home hours have decreased in both the United States and European countries. Second, female time allocation … contributes more to the cross-country difference in both the trends and the levels of market hours and home hours per person …
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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...
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Reforms that reduce alimony can affect married couples in two different ways. First, reduced alimony lowers the bargaining power of the payee, usually the wife. Second, reduced alimony lowers the incentives of wives to engage in the traditional male breadwinner model of household specialization....
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