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Education - in every sense - is one of the fundamental factors of development. It provides a foundation for the economic and social wellbeing. Time spent in education is the key to increasing economic efficiency and social consistency. Of all the resources, time is the most valued and it can be...
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mothers to reduce their weekly working hours without renouncing their permanent contract, hence maintaining a regular schedule …. Second, with this work arrangement, working mothers' child penalty declined from a 47 percent drop in hours worked to a 38 …
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about the length of their working hours. In this paper, their choice of hours is characterized as a conventional labor … supply decision and a familiar hours-wage relationship is derived. This is estimated using mill-year observations on the …-employed workers and with working hours in capitalist plywood mills. …
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-term losses into components attributable to fewer work hours and to reduced hourly wage rates. We also examine the extent to which … the reduced earnings, work hours, and wages of these displaced workers can be attributed to factors specific to pre- and … displacement can be explained almost entirely by lost work hours; however, five years after displacement, the relative earnings …
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For a century, two labor market empirical regularities characterized the movements of the hours of work, employment …. Increases in employment substituted for reductions in hours per worker. The implied elasticities of hours and employment with … understanding movements in hours of work and in employment of these workers. …
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Prior research suggests that gender differences in hours worked play an important role in the gender pay gap. Yet … common estimates of the wage returns to hours worked are close to zero, implying that hours differences cannot account much … for the gender wage gap, even though men work more hours than women on average. However, while the wage returns to hours …
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Evidence from the American Time Use Survey 2003-12 suggests the existence of small but statistically significant racial/ethnic differences in time spent not working at the workplace. Minorities, especially men, spend a greater fraction of their workdays not working than do white non-Hispanics....
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Using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) 2003-12, we estimate time spent by workers in non-work while on the job. Non-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While the average time spent by workers in non-work conditional on any positive non-work rises...
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Remote work is rapidly increasing in the United States. Using data on full-time wage and salary workers from the 2017–2018 American Time Use Survey Leave and Job Flexibilities Module, this paper examines the characteristics of teleworkers, the effects of teleworking on wages, and differences...
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Remote work is rapidly increasing in the United States. Using data on full-time wage and salary workers from the 2017–2018 American Time Use Survey Leave and Job Flexibilities Module, this paper examines the characteristics of teleworkers, the effects of teleworking on wages, and differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221778