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can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we consider the … impact of uncertainty and real options on the decision of working time, i.e. we examines the determinants of employment and …
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It has become orthodox in economics research to interpret the association between hourly earnings and working hours as the expression of the preferences of workers. This convention originated in H. Gregg Lewis' explanation for the decline in hours of work since the nineteenth century. His...
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is to reduce overtime work in order to allow the employment of more people. This paper suggests that such a concept faces … reduction in overtime will lead to less production and hence also to a decline in the level of unskilled employment. The paper …
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relationship between standard hours, actual hours and hourly wages. The main results are: i) Actual hours only decreased by 40 … percent of the reduction in standard hours. ii) Hourly wages for shift workers rose relative to wages for daytime workers. iii …
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Using a revealed preference approach applied to administrative data from Washington we document that workers have limited discretion over hours at a given employer, there is substantial mismatch between workers who prefer long hours and employers that provide short hours, and hour constraints...
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simple model of employment and the workweek, I use mean workweek levels to identify the effect of workweek flexibility and …
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include heterogeneous workers. The main conclusion is that the impact of WTR on employment, unemployment and inequality is …
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On September 1, 2014, Georgia enacted a one-time, immediate policy shifting public office working hours from 10:00-19:00 to 9:00-18:00 and affected the work schedules of all subjected employees. Due to professional scheduling conflicts faced by women with household responsibilities, some members...
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To account for employment evolutions at the macro-economic level, we propose a modelling where employment is explained … in a multivariate framework for three sets of sectors. We get a relationship in which employment rises with growth and … permits to measure retrospectively the contributions of each of the variables to employment inflections since the mid-eighties …
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establishments. Total earnings decrease by 2% due to reduced overtime pay, while hourly wages remain unchanged. Notably, the reform … that the reform leads to women taking more career jobs (standard employment) relative to non-career jobs (nonstandard … employment) as compared to their male counterparts, highlighting the potential of working-hour regulations to promote gender …
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