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Is Precarious Employment Bad for Worker Health? The Case of Zero Hours Contracts in the UK
Farina, Egidio - 2020
-lasting health problem than workers employed on other types of contract. In particular, reported levels of mental ill health are …
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Zero-Hours Contracts in a Frictional Labor Market
Dolado, Juan Jose; Lalé, Etienne; Turon, Hélène - 2022
We propose a model to evaluate the U.K.'s zero-hours contract (ZHC) a contract that exempts employers from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083937
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Relative Consumption, Working Time, and Trade Unions
Goerke, Laszlo - 2013
Status considerations with respect to consumption give rise to negative externalities because individuals do not take into account that their decisions affect the relative consumption position of others. Further, status concerns create incentives for excessive labour supply in competitive...
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The Timing of Labor Demand
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Varejão, José - 2021
We examine the timing of firms' operations in a formal model of labor demand. Merging a variety of data sets from Portugal from 1995-2004, we describe temporal patterns of firms' demand for labor and estimate production-functions and relative labor-demand equations. The results demonstrate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324733
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Are Estimates of Non-Standard Employment Wage Penalties Robust to Different Wage Measures? The Case of Zero Hours Contracts in the UK
Farina, Egidio - 2020
of which may be correlated with employment contract. Many relevant surveys, however, also include stated-rate hourly wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826742
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Wage-Hours Contracts, Overtime Working and Premium Pay
Hart, Robert A.; Ma, Yui - 2021
This paper offers a contract-based theory to explain the determination of standard hours, overtime hours and overtime … premium pay. We expand on the wage contract literature that emphasises the role of firm-specific human capital and that … explores problems of contract efficiency in the face of information asymmetries between the firm and the worker. We first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324874
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Great Expectations : Law, Employment Contracts, and Labor Market Performance
MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2011
theory of contract. Finally, the empirical literature on employment and labor law is reviewed. I conclude that many aspects … of employment law are consistent with the economic theory of contract - namely, that contracts are written and enforced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132281
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Why are Professors 'Poorly Paid'?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2018
Using Current Population Survey data, I demonstrate a 15-percentage point wage disadvantage among academics compared to all other doctorate-holders with the same demographics. Time-diary data show that academics' workhours are distributed more evenly over the week and day, although their total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929096
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Working Times and Overweight : Tight Schedules, Weaker Fitness?
Costa-Font, Joan - 2018
Although the rise in obesity and overweight is related to time constraints influencing health investments (e.g., exercise, shopping and cooking time, etc.), there is limited causal evidence to substantiate such claims. This paper estimates the causal effect of a change in working times on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912754
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Working Time Flexibility and Parental 'Quality Time' Spent with Children
Magda, Iga - 2018
The aim of our paper is to analyse the relationship between working time flexibility and parental time devoted to … Decisions Household Panel Survey, UDE) we investigate whether and how various dimensions of working time flexibility affect the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919504