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"How many hours would you want to work a week?" : job quality and the omitted variables bias in labour supply models
Steiber, Nadia - 2008 - This version: May 2008
This paper sets out to provide an understanding of how individuals form their preferences over the extent of their paid … work involvement - their working time preferences - in different work environments and societal contexts. The main … objective of the empirical analysis is to investigate how preferences of this kind are constructed at the individual level and …
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Arbeitszeit und Arbeitsumfeld : Indikatoren, Entwicklungen und Bewertung
Hübler, Olaf - 2025
Die Forderung nach einer Work-Life-Balance und der spürbare Arbeitskräftemangel haben die öffentliche Diskussion um Arbeitszeitveränderungen verstärkt. Kann sich die Gesellschaft eine allgemeine Absenkung der Arbeitszeit leisten oder sind vielmehr längere Arbeitszeiten vonnöten? Die...
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Long Workweeks and Strange Hours
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2014
American workweeks are long compared to other rich countries'. Much less well-known is that Americans are more likely to work at night and on weekends. We examine the relationship between these two phenomena using the American Time Use Survey and time-diary data from 5 other countries. Adjusting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047849
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Long workweeks and strange hours
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2014
American workweeks are long compared to other rich countries'. Much less well-known is that Americans are more likely to work at night and on weekends. We examine the relationship between these two phenomena using the American Time Use Survey and time-diary data from 5 other countries. Adjusting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403659
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Universal childcare for the youngest and the maternal labour supply
Kunze, Astrid; Liu, Xingfei - 2019
In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We measure female labour supply at both the extensive and intensive margin. For identification, we exploit a nationwide reform that expanded childcare for 1–2- year-olds in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011973903
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Universal childcare for the youngest and the maternal labour supply
Kunze, Astrid; Liu, Xingfei - 2019
In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We measure female labour supply at both the extensive and intensive margin. For identification, we exploit a nationwide reform that expanded childcare for 1-2- year-olds in Norway....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979049
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Getting it Right : Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications from Research on Public-Sector Unionism and Collective Bargaining
Lewin, David; Kochan, Thomas A.; Cutcher-Gershenfeld, … - 2014
In response to public-sector collective-bargaining conflict in Wisconsin and other states, Employment Policy Researcher Network researchers wrote a white paper, "Getting it Right: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications from Research on Public-Sector Unionism and Collective Bargaining."
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Measurement of Market Concentration Faced by Labor Pools : Theory and Evidence from Fast Food Chains in Rhode Island with No-Poaching Clauses
Levy, Daniel - 2018
Contractual restrictions on mobility of workers across units within a franchise – “no-poaching” clauses – have recently attracted attention. The restrictions are claimed to concentrate labor markets to the detriment of employees. Previous research has found that they do. However,...
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Increasing Employment for Older Workers with Effective Protections Against Employment Discrimination
Harris, Seth D. - 2021
Employment discrimination contributes significantly to depressing labor force participation and employment rates of older workers. Actual discrimination reduces employers’ demand for older workers’ labor, while older workers’ perception of workplace and labor market discrimination reduces...
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Industrial Relations Dynamics in an Increasingly Democratic and Economically Integrated Global Economy : Are There Any Decipherable Common Patterns and Trajectories?- Cases Studies of Indonesia and Republic of Korea
Jameaba, Muyanja-Ssenyonga - 2012
The article reviews developments in industrial relations in Republic of Korea (Korea) and Indonesia as democratic principles have gained ground over authoritarian directives. Some of the features of the industrial relations regime during democratization ‘epoch', include the embarking on...
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