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We analyze the causal effect of the length of the worker's commute on worker's productivity, by examining whether … commuting time has any effect on worker's labour market supply. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-03, our GMM/IV estimation … yields a positive causal impact of commuting time on the time devoted to the labour market, with one hour of commuting …
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paper three alternative measures of hours worked are used to estimate a simple labour supply function to investigate if …
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This paper tests the predictive value of subjective labour supply data for adjustments in working hours over time. The … idea is that if subjective labour supply data help to predict next year?s working hours, such data must contain at least … some information on individual labour supply preferences. This informational content can be crucial to identify models of …
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Most empirical studies on the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a … estimates are used to evaluate various model outcomes, like the wage elasticities of labour supply and the impacts of wage … pooling of men's earnings and the household's non-labour income in the female's budget constraint. These differences in …
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creation or productivity, labor relations or adaptation of firms to regulation. This paper provides a primer for researchers …
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below a certain threshold. We ask if the unemployed who start marginal jobs face better labour market outcomes than those … who do not work. A priori it is not clear if those who work in marginal employment improve their labour market status, e … effect of marginal employment on their labour market outcomes, by means of propensity score matching. Our results suggest …
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effort provision. This renders explicit tests of the neoclassical theory of labor supply difficult. Here we present evidence …
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This paper analyzes the implications of labor market institutions and policies on the employment-labor productivity … unemployment and the distribution of both wages and productivity are endogenous. By means of simulations of this model estimated on …
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Since 1960, the dynamics of the aggregate hours of market work exhibit dramatic differences across industrialized countries. Before 1980, these differences seem to come from the hours worked per employee (the intensive margin). However, since 1980 a notable feature of the data is that the...
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to market productivity, satisfying the Hosios rule leads to excessive vacancy creation. The reason is that the marginal … worker does not internalize the effect of his or her participation on average productivity. …
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