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has been trending upward during the past twenty years. The data also show that earnings from secondary jobs are, on … average, 27.8 percent of a multiple jobholder's total quarterly earnings. Multiple jobholding occurs at all levels of earnings …, with both higher- and lower-earnings multiple jobholders earning more than 25 percent of their total earnings from multiple …
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has been trending upward during the past twenty years. The data also show that earnings from secondary jobs are, on … average, 27.8 percent of a multiple jobholder's total quarterly earnings. Multiple jobholding occurs at all levels of earnings …, with both higher- and lower-earnings multiple jobholders earning more than 25 percent of their total earnings from multiple …
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This article analyses a labour supply model in which individuals maximize a utility function that depends on leisure time, consumption and time devoted to an activity that is termed ‘artistic'. This activity may generate income that depends nonlinearly on hours dedicated to it. The individual...
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With the beginnings of a worldwide burgeoning development of matched firm-employee data, it is worthwhile to examine the possibilities for using these data. This essay discusses a variety of areas in which some progress has been made and presents ideas for future research in a number of others,...
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Work experience is a key variable in earnings function estimates and wage gap decompositions. Because data on actual … and child-rearing—a critical omission when analyzing gender differences in earnings. This paper constructs a better proxy …
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Do apparently large minimum wage increases in an environment of recession produce clearer evidence of disemployment effects than is typically observed in the new minimum wage literature? This paper augments the sparse literature on the most recent increases in the U.S. minimum wage, using three...
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We use a novel dataset and research design to empirically detect the effect of social interactions among neighbors on labor market outcomes. Specifically, using Census data that characterize residential and employment locations down to the city block, we examine whether individuals residing in...
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The increase in female employment and participation rates is one of the most dramatic economic changes to have taken place during the last century. However, while the employment rate of married women more than doubled during the last fifty years, that of unmarried women remained almost constant....
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