Effective working hours and wages: the case of downward adjustment via paid absenteeism

This paper compares contractual with effective working hours and wages, respectively. Effective working hours are defined as contractual working hours minus absent working hours. This approach takes into account workers' downward adjustment of working time via paid absenteeism if working time constraints are present, which induce workers to accept contracts with larger than their optimal choice of working hours. A German personnel data set, which contains precise information on wages as well as working and absence hours, is used to assess the impact of such downward adjustment on wage inequality and wage differentials (gender, schooling, age).

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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	Pfeifer, Christian
Publisher:	Lüneburg : Univ., Inst. für Volkswirtschaftslehre
Subject:	Absenteeism \| earnings \| inequality \| wage differentials \| working hours

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Series:	University of Lüneburg Working Paper Series in Economics ; 152
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	616508859 [GVK] hdl:10419/30237 [Handle]
Classification:	J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc
Source:	EconStor