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Full- and part-time wage differentials and female labor supply : discontinuous budget constraint and endogenous wages
Yun, Myeong-Su - 2000
We introduce a structural model which jointly estimates the full-time wage premium and female labor supply, using the …), caused by the coexistence of both full- and part-time wage rates, and makes wages fully endogenous to the labor supply choice … small full-time wage premium. Our estimates for labor supply elasticities lie within the ranges reported in previous …
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Hours risk and wage risk : repercussions over the life-cycle
Jessen, Robin; König, Johannes - 2020
We decompose permanent earnings risk into contributions from hours and wage shocks. To distinguish between hours shocks …, modeled as innovations to the marginal disutility of work, and labor supply reactions to wage shocks we formulate a life …-cycle model of consumption and labor supply. Both permanent wage and hours shocks are important to explain earnings risk, but wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145317
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Hours risk and wage risk : repercussions over the life-cycle
Jessen, Robin; König, Johannes - 2020
We decompose permanent earnings risk into contributions from hours and wage shocks. To distinguish between hours shocks …, modeled as innovations to the marginal disutility of work, and labor supply reactions to wage shocks we formulate a life …-cycle model of consumption and labor supply. Both permanent wage and hours shocks are important to explain earnings risk, but wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012160640
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Labor Market Effects of US Sick Pay Mandates
Pichler, Stefan - 2016
This paper exploits temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of US sick pay mandates to assess their labor market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993955
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Labor Market Effects of US Sick Pay Mandates
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021
This paper exploits temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of US sick pay mandates to assess their labor market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247841
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The Supply of Child Labour
Cigno, Alessandro - 2004
examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261870
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Sleeping
Laufey Asgeirsdottir, Tinna - 2008
Sleep is a source of energy. This energy is available in limited quantity and individuals must decide when it should be renewed and when it should be consumed. The economics of sleeping and the economics of resource extraction are one and the same. More specifically, utility maximization with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306470
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How important are mental and physical health in career and family choices?
Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - 2024
incorporates mental and physical health. Correlated mental and physical health production functions are simultaneously estimated …, including the endogenous decisions to seek psychotherapy and smoke cigarettes as health accumulation factors. The model is … indicate that mental health has a stronger impact on labor supply than physical health. At the same time, estimates show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014582273
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Racial/ethnic differences in non-work at work
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Genadek, Katie R.; Burda, Michael C. - 2017
/ethnic representation. The findings imply that measures of the adjusted wage disadvantages of minority employees are overstated by about 10 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607370
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Are working hours complements in production?
Shao, Lin; Sohail, Faisal; Yurdagul, Emircan - 2022 - Last updated: November 21, 2022
This paper uses Canadian matched employer-employee data to show that working hours are gross complements in production rather than perfect substitutes, as is typically assumed. We exploit within-establishment and individual-level variation in hours and wages to document novel evidence consistent...
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