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-skilled labor increases. This suppresses wages of low-skilled workers and/or increases their unemployment rates. On the other hand … for the years 1970 - 2004, we document how the volatility of hours worked and of wages of workers at different skill …
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-specific wage levels in a public-sector setting where wages otherwise are set according to individualized wage bargaining. The … agreement stipulated that wages should increase in proportion to the number of low-paid females within each establishment. We … find that actual wages among incubents responded to the share of females with a wage below the stipulated threshold …
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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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This paper studies the employment and income effects of a federal proposal in 2016 to expand overtime coverage to additionally cover salaried workers earning between $455 and $913 per week ($23,660 and $47,476 per annum). Although the policy was unexpectedly nullified a week before its proposed...
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This book contributes to clarify the conditions of jobs with shorter working hours and reckons the potential for increasing part-time employment in Germany. Two crucial obstacles of part-time employment are addressed: Firstly, the wage structure and its implications for labor supply, and...
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We investigate the impact of Seattle's Paid Sick and Safety Time (PSST) policy on workers' quarterly hours worked and separation hazard. Using Unemployment Insurance records from before and after the implementation of PSST, we examine individual-level employment behavior at the extensive and...
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a given industry, because firms paying below-market-level straight-time wages tend to award above-market-level overtime … premiums, and, conversely, firms paying above-market-level straight-time wages provide below-market-level overtime premiums …
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