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The willingness to pay for job amenities : evidence from mothers' return to work
Felfe, Christina - 2009
identification strategy relies on German maternity leave length. The key aspect of the maternal leave framework is that mothers can … wage. The results provide evidence that mothers are willing to sacrifice a significant fraction of their wage to reduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872318
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The Prospects for Caring : Economic Theory and Policy Analysis
Himmelweit, Susan - 2010
This paper examines three distinguishing features of caring: that it involves the development of a relationship, that caring responsibilities and needs are unequally distributed and that social norms influence the allocation of care and caring responsibilities, to draw out their implications for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012716481
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The willingness to pay for job amenities : evidence from mothers' return to work
Felfe, Christina - 2009
This study is the first to estimate mothers' marginal willingness to pay (MWP) for job amenities directly. Its … identification strategy relies on German maternity leave length. The key aspect of the maternal leave framework is that mothers can … wage. The results provide evidence that mothers are willing to sacrifice a significant fraction of their wage to reduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636536
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Commitment and the dynamics of household labor supply
Theloudis, Alexandros; Velilla, Jorge; Chiappori, … - 2022
The extent to which individuals commit to their partner for life has important implications. This paper develops a lifecycle collective model of the household, through which it characterizes behavior in three prominent alternative types of commitment: full, limited, and no commitment. We propose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013460092
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Commuting, wages, and household behavior
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2024
of couples' commuting, wages, labor supply, and consumption. Using data from the PSID for the years 2011-2019, results … indicate a positive and highly significant correlation between wages and commuting when analyzed cross-sectionally. However …, changes in wages and commuting over an individual's life cycle are not related. Additionally, commuting appears to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014581485
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Relative pay and labor supply
Bracha, Anat; Genîzî, Ûrî - 2012 - This version: July 10, 2012
relative wages on labor supply. They test the hypothesis that, ceteris paribus, making a given wage high (low) relative to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009569610
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Asymmetric Labor-Supply Responses to Wage-Rate Changes : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Dörrenberg, Philipp - 2016
The standard labor-supply literature typically assumes that the labor supply response to wage increases is the same as that for equivalent wage decreases. However, evidence from the behavioral-economics literature suggests that people are loss averse and thus perceive losses differently than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000061
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Relative Pay, Productivity, and Labor Supply
Bracha, Anat - 2017
Relative pay — earnings compared with the earnings of others doing a similar job, or compared with one's earnings in the past — affects how much individuals would like to work (labor supply) and their effort on the job; it therefore has implications for both employers and policy makers. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953612
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Asymmetric Labor-Supply Responses to Wage-Rate Changes - Evidence from a Field Experiment
Dörrenberg, Philipp - 2017
The standard labor-supply literature typically assumes that the labor supply response to wage increases is the same as that for equivalent wage decreases. However, evidence from the behavioral-economics literature suggests that people are loss averse and thus perceive losses differently than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969586
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On the Cyclicality of Real Wages and Employment : New Evidence and Stylized Facts from Performance Pay and Fixed Wage Jobs
Makridis, Christos - 2020
Using the National Compensation Survey between 2004-2017, we document three stylized facts and quantify cyclical heterogeneity among performance pay and fixed wage jobs. First, there is substantial dispersion in the incidence of performance pay, even within the same occupation; hourly...
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