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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 … some teleworkers earn a wage premium, but it varies by occupation, gender, parental status, and teleworking intensity …
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likely have less fatigue. Pay rates also have implications for driver health because worker health deteriorates as working …
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the variance of log earnings into the variances of hours, wage rates and their covariance, and decompositions based on …
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On the 1st of January 2016 the Irish National Minimum Wage increased from €8.65 to €9.15 per hour, an increase of … approximately six percent. We use a difference-in-differences estimator to evaluate whether the change in the minimum wage affected … the hours worked and likelihood of job loss of minimum wage workers. The results indicate that the increase in the minimum …
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A minimum wage increase could lead to adverse employment effects for certain sub-groups of minimum wage workers, while … wage workers. In this paper, we test for heterogeneous effects of a minimum wage increase on the hours worked of minimum … wage employees in Ireland. For all minimum wage workers, we find that a ten percent increase in the minimum wage leads to a …
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results indicate a zero wage elasticity of labor supply and also zero income elasticity … (hours of work) and the extensive margin (participation) to unearned income and market wages, when self-employment is an … Baslevent (2000), is applied in this analysis. The model allows for three options: non-employment, self-employment, and wage …
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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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In this paper the impact of working hours on the gross hourly wage rate of West German women is analyzed. We use a … simultaneous wage-hours model which takes into account the participation decision. First, our estimates show that the hourly wage … linear spline functions. Second, we detect different wage-hours profiles for specific groups of individuals. Despite these …
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employment, rising dual-earnership and part-time employment underline its relevance. We discuss the measurement of wage … inequality, data sources, and stylized facts of wage dispersion for rich countries. The literature explaining the dispersion of … wage rates and the role of institutions is evaluated, from the early 1980s to the recent literature on job polarization and …
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being driven by higher hourly wage inequality, but rather by working hours: In recent years, employees with a high hourly … wage work more than previously compared to employees with a low hourly wage. In particular, this applies to two groups …-life balance and more opportunities to increase working hours in the low-wage sector could counteract this trend. …
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