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Why is China's employment elasticity so low? : a wage bill decomposition view

Li, Xiaolong; Yu, Jingwen; Zhu, Hongfei - In: The empirical economics letters : a monthly … 12 (2013) 8, pp. 869-877

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Does marriage affect men's labor market outcomes? : a European perspective

Jakobsson, Niklas; Kotsadam, Andreas - In: Review of Economics of the Household 14 (2016) 2, pp. 373-389

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Trends in U.S. hours and the labor wedge

Cociuba, Simona E.; Ueberfeldt, Alexander - 2010

From 1980 until 2007, U.S. average hours worked increased by thirteen percent, due to a large increase in female hours. At the same time, the U.S. labor wedge, measured as the discrepancy between a representative household's marginal rate of substitution between consumption and leisure and the...

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Why Do People Overwork? Over-Supply of Hours of Labor, Labor Market Forces and Adaptive Preferences

Golden, Lonnie - 2009

Several key trends across most advanced economic economies have increased both desired hours of work and the salience of working time on well-being. Models in the economics discipline offer both labor supply and labor demand reasons to explain why many people might be willing to work longer...

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Overwork in spouse's degree field and the labor market outcomes of skilled women

McKinnish, Terra G. - 2019

that for married women with children, overwork in spouse's degree field negatively affects total earnings, hourly wages …

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Heterogeneity and Aggregation in the Labor Market : Implications for Aggregate Preference Shifts

Chang, Yongsung - 2012

The cyclical behavior of hours of work, wages, and consumption does not conform with the prediction of the …

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Coffee price volatility and intra-household labour supply : evidence from Viet Nam

Beck, Ulrik; Singhal, Saurabh; Tarp, Finn - 2016

Volatility in commodity markets poses an acute risk to farmers in developing countries who rely on cash crop agriculture. We combine a time series of international coffee prices with a long-running panel on coffee-growing households in Viet Nam to investigate coping mechanisms employed by...

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Evaluating the effect of beauty on labor market outcomes : a review of the literature

Liu, Xing Michelle; Sierminska, Eva - 2014

An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market rewards individual physical attractiveness. This article surveys the extensive empirical literature of the effect of physical attractiveness on labor market outcomes. Particular...

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Relative consumption, working time, and trade unions

Goerke, Laszlo; Hillesheim, Inga - 2013

incentives for excessive labour supply in competitive markets. We show that trade unions which are unable to internalise the … externality can nevertheless mitigate the resulting distortion. The reason is that wages above the market clearing level are only … establishes that trade unions can have a welfareenhancing role in a world with relative consumption effects. …

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Relative consumption, working time, and trade unions

Goerke, Laszlo; Hillesheim, Inga - 2013

incentives for excessive labour supply in competitive markets. We show that trade unions which are unable to internalise the … externality can nevertheless mitigate the resulting distortion. The reason is that wages above the market clearing level are only … establishes that trade unions can have a welfare-enhancing role in a world with relative consumption effects. …

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