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Estimating labor supply in self-employment : pitfalls and resolutions
Lechmann, Daniel S. J. - 2017
The small extant literature on the working hours of self-employed workers is deficient, because it often lacks a clear theoretical underpinning and suffers from three common mistakes: including the hourly wage as an explanatory variable, controlling for input factors of production, and not...
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Older workers and working time
Bell, David N. F.; Rutherford, Alasdair C. - 2013
Contrary to much of the established literature, this paper finds that though many older workers would prefer to reduce their working hours (the overemployed), there is a significant group who would like to work longer hours (the underemployed). And contrary to the assumption that the...
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Income taxation and hours worked in different types of entrepreneurship
Can, Ege; Fossen, Frank M. - 2023
We investigate the effect of personal income tax (PIT) rates on the number of hours entrepreneurs work weekly. Using the rotating panel data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey from 2003 to 2019, we estimate instrumental variable regressions in first...
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Labor Supply of Egyptian Married Women When Self-Employment is an Option : Participation and Hours of Work
El Hamidi, Fatma - 2011
This paper estimates the responsiveness of labor supply function of urban married women on both the intensive margin (hours of work) and the extensive margin (participation) to unearned income and market wages, when self-employment is an option. Data used from household surveys carried out in...
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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 … additional work-sharing in Germany. Furthermore, the match between actual and desired hours of Germans would improve if Germans … that hours restrictions shrank over time, which means, Germany seems to be moving towards a more flexible labor market. …
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Preferred vs. actual working hours : a ten years paneleconometric analysis for professions, entrepreneurs and employees in Germany
Merz, Joachim; Lang, Rainer - 1997
Labour market dynamics according the individual working hour tension (preferred working hours minus actual working hours) of active people with focus on the self-employed, as professions and entrepreneurs, and employees are investigated in our study. The individual longitudinal analysis based on...
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Preferred vs. Actual Working Hours - A Ten Years Paneleconometric Analysis for Professions, Entrepreneurs and Employees in Germany
Merz, Joachim; Lang, Rainer - 2008
Labour market dynamics according the individual working hour tension (preferred working hours minus actual working hours) of active people with focus on the self-employed, as professions and entrepreneurs, and employees are investigated in our study. The individual longitudinal analysis based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014212004
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Who is Working When? - Working Time Arrangments of Self-Employed and Employees : A Microeconometric Analysis of German Time Use Data
Merz, Joachim; Burgert, Derik - 2009
In recent years new patterns of working time have appeared along with an increased flexibility concerning timing of work and the decay of the regular working day. We analyze the timing of working time for both self-employed and employees based on the German time budget study 1991/92. In the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014046509
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Loosening Hours Constraints on the Supply of Labor : What If Germans Had a Dutch Labor Market?
Wolf, Elke - 2008
Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this … additional work-sharing in Germany. Furthermore, the match between actual and desired hours of Germans would improve if Germans … hours restrictions shrank over time, which means, Germany seems to be moving towards a more exible labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014089251
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Whose preferences are revealed in hours of work?
Pencavel, John H. - 2015
It has become orthodox in economics research to interpret the association between hourly earnings and working hours as the expression of the preferences of workers. This convention originated in H. Gregg Lewis' explanation for the decline in hours of work since the nineteenth century. His...
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