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Paid and unpaid overtime working in Germany and the UK

Bell, David N. F.; Hart, Robert A.; Hübler, Olaf; … - 2000

Significant numbers of employees work more hours in the workplace than their contract stipulates. Such overtime work can either be paid or unpaid. This research considers overtime working in Germany and the UK and shows that the quantitative significance of both paid and unpaid overtime is...

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Missing at work : sickness-related absence and subsequent job mobility

Chadi, Adrian; Goerke, Laszlo - 2015

promotion (dismissal). In line with the interpretation of absenteeism as a proxy for effort, instrumental variable analyses …

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The added worker effect differentiated by gender and partnership status : evidence from involuntary job loss

Triebe, Doreen - 2015

This paper examines the added worker effect (AWE), which refers to the increase of labor supply of individuals in response to a sudden financial shock in family income, that is, unemployment of their partner. While previous empirical studies focus on married women's response to those shocks, I...

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The gender gap in earnings losses after job displacement

Illing, Hannah; Schmieder, Johannes; Trenkle, Simon - 2021

. Our results show that after a mass layoff, women's earnings losses are about 35% higher than men's, with the gap …

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Getting ahead : the determinants of and payoffs to internal promotion for young U.S. men and women

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2001

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper examines the role of gender in the promotion …. Specifically, how do the factors related to promotion differ for men and women? How do gender differences in promotion translate … answering these questions, alternative definitions of "promotion" will be considered. Getting ahead matters - particularly for …

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The impact of overtime limits on firms and workers : evidence from Japan's Work Style Reform

Burdín, Gabriel; Kambayashi, Ryo; Kato, Takao - 2024

This study provides the first analysis of Japan's 2018 Work Style Reform (WSR) and its effects on firms and workers, using payroll and survey data in a difference-in-difference design. We find that the reform's introduction of an overtime cap reduces average monthly overtime hours by 5 hours...

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Gender disparities in valuing remote and hybrid work in Latin America

Diaz Escobar, Ana Maria; Salas, Luz Magdalena; Piras, … - 2024

This study sheds light on the growing trend and gender dynamics of workplace flexibility in Latin America, underscoring the importance of remote work options in the region's labor market. We explore gender differences in willingness to pay (WTP) for remote work arrangements in Latin America,...

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Variable Pay and Work Hours: Does Performance Pay Reduce the Gender Time Gap?

Baktash, Mehrzad B.; Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2024

Using German survey data, we show that performance pay is associated with a substantially lower gender hours gap. While performance pay increases the work hours of both men and women, the increase is much larger for women than for men. This finding persists in worker fixed effects estimates. We...

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Variable pay and work hours: Does performance pay reduce the gender time gap?

Baktash, Mehrzad B.; Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2024

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Occupational Match Quality and Gender over Two Cohorts

Addison, John T. - 2018

We deploy a measure of occupational mismatch based on the discrepancy between the portfolio of skills required by an occupation and the array of abilities possessed by the worker for learning those skills. We report distinct gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over...

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