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Wages and hours laws : what do we know? What can be done?

Brown, Charles C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2019

We summarize recent research on the wage and employment effects of minimum wage laws in the U.S. and infer from non-U.S. studies of hours laws the likely effects of unchanging U.S. hours laws. Minimum wages in the U.S. have increasingly become a province of state governments, with the effective...

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Does labor legislation benefit workers? : well-being after an hours reduction

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Lee, Jungmin - 2014

Are workers in modern economies working "too hard" - would they be better off if an equilibrium with fewer work hours were achieved? We examine changes in life satisfaction of Japanese and Koreans over a period when hours of work were cut exogenously because employers suddenly faced an overtime...

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Two-sided learning, labor turnover and worker displacement

Pfann, Gerard A.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2001

We construct a general dynamic structural model of two-sided learning between a firm and its workers. We estimate an empirical version of the model using personnel data from Fokker Aircraft that cover the path of layoffs and quits through its bankruptcy. We find that the firm learns about its...

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The impact of one parent family payment reforms on the labour market outcomes of lone parents

Redmond, Paul; McGuinness, Séamus; Keane, Claire - 2020

This paper evaluates the impact of a reduction in the child qualifying age criteria for the One Parent Family Payment (OFP) in Ireland. From 2012 to 2015, the child qualifying age for OFP was reduced from 18 years to 7 years. Lone parents who no longer qualified for the payment, based on the age...

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The value of peripatetic economists : a sesqui-difference evaluation of Bob Gregory

Hamermesh, Daniel S. (contributor) - 2005

I ask generally whether a country can benefit from the temporary importation of human capital, and specifically whether a program that attracts large groups of academic visitors to a distant country benefits it by generating additional scholarly research on local issues. Using the list of...

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How do immigrants spend their time? : the process of assimilation

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2010

Using 2004-2008 data from the American Time Use Survey, we show that sharp differences between the time use of immigrants and natives become noticeable when activities are distinguished by incidence and intensity. We develop a theory of the process of assimilation – what immigrants do with...

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Job insecurity and future labour market outcomes

McGuinness, Séamus; Wooden, Mark; Hahn, Markus - 2012

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The stress cost of children

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Wooden, Mark - 2015

We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how …

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The time and timing costs of market work, and their implications for retirement

Hamermesh, Daniel S. (contributor) - 2006

Retirement ages among older Americans have only recently begun to increase after a precipitous fifty-year decline. Early retirement may result from incentives provided by retirement systems; but it may also result from the rigidities imposed by market work schedules. Using the American Time Use...

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The problem of overskilling in Australia and Britain

Mavromaras, Kostas G.; McGuinness, Séamus; O'Leary, Nigel - 2007

This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses … Australia, but the wage penalty associated with overskilling increases with education. Although the general patterns of … overskilling (prevalence and penalties) are fairly similar between Australia and Britain, the problem appears to be greater in …

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