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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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How Many Hours Would You Want to Work a Week? Job Quality and the Omitted Variables Bias in Labour Supply Models : A Longitudinal Analysis of Working Time Preference Change
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/10014215509
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Job Changes and Hours Changes : Understanding the Path of Labour Supply Adjustment
Blundell, Richard W. - 2007
confirmed when we look at hours changes by stated labour supply preferences. Finally, we find little overall effect of the …This paper uses British panel data to investigate single women's labour supply changes in response to three tax and … identify changes in labour supply. We find evidence of small hours of work effects for two of such reforms. A third reform in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775845
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Older workers and working time
Bell, David N. F.; Rutherford, Alasdair C. - 2013
. Using longitudinal data from the UK Labour Force Survey, the paper investigates the effects of overemployment and … underemployment on transitions from employment and self-employment into other labour market states. It confirms that overemployment is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786943
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Does performance pay influence hours of work?
Green, Colin; Heywood, John S. - 2022
A large body of research links performance pay to poorer worker health. The exact mechanism generating this link remains in doubt. We examine a common suspect, that performance pay causes employees to work longer hours in pursuit of higher pay. Using representative data for the UK, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013343260
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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor : what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?
Wolf, Elke - 2000
Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this back-of-the-envelope calculation overestimates the effect of loosening hours constraints, because even in a very flexible labor market there will exist hours restrictions for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445026
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Does temporal and locational flexibility of work increase the supply of working hours? : evidence from the Netherlands
Possenriede, Daniel; Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Plantenga, … - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 16, pp. 1-34
evidence of a positive effect of TLF on labour supply. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573093
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Changes in working hours are driving earnings inequality
Beckmannshagen, Mattis; Schröder, Carsten - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 12 (2022) 32/34, pp. 195-201
According to Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data, inequality in gross monthly earnings in Germany increased significantly between 1993 and 2003 and has been stagnating at a high level since 2008. As this Weekly Report shows, the increase is not being driven by higher hourly wage inequality, but...
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Windfall gains and labour supply : evidence from the European household panel
Sila, Urban; Sousa, Ricardo M. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 3 (2014), pp. 1-27
particular, after receiving a windfall gain, individuals are more likely to drop out of the labour force and the effects become … labour supply: (i) is more important for young and old individuals, (ii) is most negative for married individuals with young …
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