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"How many hours would you want to work a week?" : job quality and the omitted variables bias in labour supply models
Steiber, Nadia - 2008 - This version: May 2008
This paper sets out to provide an understanding of how individuals form their preferences over the extent of their paid … work involvement - their working time preferences - in different work environments and societal contexts. The main … objective of the empirical analysis is to investigate how preferences of this kind are constructed at the individual level and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632752
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Universal childcare for the youngest and the maternal labour supply
Kunze, Astrid; Liu, Xingfei - 2019
In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We measure female labour supply at both the extensive and intensive margin. For identification, we exploit a nationwide reform that expanded childcare for 1-2- year-olds in Norway....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979049
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Universal childcare for the youngest and the maternal labour supply
Kunze, Astrid; Liu, Xingfei - 2019
In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We measure female labour supply at both the extensive and intensive margin. For identification, we exploit a nationwide reform that expanded childcare for 1–2- year-olds in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011973903
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Long workweeks and strange hours
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2014
American workweeks are long compared to other rich countries'. Much less well-known is that Americans are more likely to work at night and on weekends. We examine the relationship between these two phenomena using the American Time Use Survey and time-diary data from 5 other countries. Adjusting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403659
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Long Workweeks and Strange Hours
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2014
American workweeks are long compared to other rich countries'. Much less well-known is that Americans are more likely to work at night and on weekends. We examine the relationship between these two phenomena using the American Time Use Survey and time-diary data from 5 other countries. Adjusting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047849
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Long Work Hours: Volunteers and Conscripts
Drago, Robert; Wooden, Mark; Black, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Panel data from Australia are used to study the prevalence of work hours mismatch among long hours workers and, more importantly, how that mismatch persists and changes over time, and what factors are associated with these changes. Particular attention is paid to the roles played by household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822480
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Who Wants Flexibility? Changing Work Hours Preferences and Life Events
Drago, Robert; Wooden, Mark; Black, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We consider desires for flexibility in weekly hours by analyzing changes in work hours preferences using four years of … data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. We control for work hours preferences in … hours preferences. Our findings reveal that, in general, women are more sensitive to life events than men. Women’s preferred …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822957
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"How Many Hours Would you Want to Work a Week?": Job Quality and the Omitted Variables Bias in Labour Supply Models
Steiber, Nadia - 2008
This paper sets out to provide an understanding of how individuals form their preferences over the extent of their paid … work involvement - their working time preferences - in different work environments and societal contexts. The main … objective of the empirical analysis is to investigate how preferences of this kind are constructed at the individual level and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600766
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"How Many Hours Would you Want to Work a Week?": Job Quality and the Omitted Variables Bias in Labour Supply Models
Steiber, Nadia - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
This paper sets out to provide an understanding of how individuals form their preferences over the extent of their paid … work involvement - their working time preferences - in different work environments and societal contexts. The main … objective of the empirical analysis is to investigate how preferences of this kind are constructed at the individual level and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017463
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China's 2008 Labor Contract Law: Implementation and Implications for China's Workers
Gallagher, Mary; Giles, John T.; Park, Albert; Wang, Meiyan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper presents empirical evidence from household and firm survey data collected during 2009-2010 on the implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The government and local labor bureaus have made substantial efforts to enforce the provisions of the new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212761