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Hart, Robert A. - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

methods in the manufacturing and production industries. Yet, today the incidence of piecework in advanced economies is very …, and has the movement away from piecework gone too far? …

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Piecework versus timework in British wartime engineering

Hart, Robert A. - 2005

1942. The paper investigates the effects of war on piecework and timework in relation to (a) labour market arguments …

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Real wages, working time, and the great depression: What does micro evidence tell us?

Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, J. Elizabeth - 2010

Based largely on industry-level aggregate statistics, the prevailing view, and one that has strongly influenced macroeconomic thought, is that real wages during the cycle containing the Great Depression are either acyclical or countercyclical. Does this finding hold-up when more micro data are...

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Real wage cyclicality and the Great Depression: evidence from British engineering and metal working firms

Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, J. Elizabeth - 2011

Based on firm‐level payroll data from around 2000 member firms of the BritishEngineering Employers’ Federation we examine the behavior of real hourly earnings over the1927‐1937 cycle that contained the Great Depression. The pay statistics are based on adultmale blue‐collar workers within...

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Real wages, working time, and the Great Depression

Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, J. Elizabeth - 2010

We have assembled two British data sets to re-examine the behaviour of real wages over the 1927-1937 cycle that contained the Great Depression. Both provide a degree of micro detail that greatly exceeds previous studies. The first consists of annual wages for 36 manufacturing industries. The...

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Piecework and Job Search in the Platform Economy

Cantarella, Michele; Strozzi, Chiara - 2022

, suggesting that piecework might be an endemic source of demand surplus for monopsonistic markets. …

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The rise and fall of pieceworkIncidence of piecework has significantly reduced in advanced industrialized economies-has its decline gone too far?

Hart, Robert A. - 2016

methods in the manufacturing and production industries. Yet, today the incidence of piecework in advanced economies is very …, and has the movement away from piecework gone too far? …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011456258

Industrial composition, methods of compensation and real earnings in the great depression

Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, J. Elizabeth - In: National Institute economic review 226 (2013), pp. 17-29

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Returns to compensation in trucking : does safety pay?

Faulkiner, Michael R.; Belzer, Michael H. - In: The economic and labour relations review : ELRR 30 (2019) 2, pp. 262-284

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Safe rates and unpaid labour : non-driving pay and truck driver work hours

Kudo, Takahiko; Belzer, Michael H. - In: The economic and labour relations review : ELRR 30 (2019) 4, pp. 532-548

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