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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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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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Paid vacation use : the role of works councils
Goerke, Laszlo; Jeworrek, Sabrina - 2016
We investigate the relationship between co-determination at the plant level and paid vacation in Germany. From a legal perspective, works councils have no impact on vacation entitlements, but they can affect their use. Employing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we find that male...
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Long-term effects of unpaid overtime : evidence for West Germany
Pannenberg, Markus - 2002
Why do people work unpaid overtime? We show that remarkable long-term labor earnings gains are associated with unpaid overtime in West Germany. A descriptive analysis suggests that over a 10-year period workers with unpaid overtime experience on average at least a 10 percentage points higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436362
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Long-term effects of unpaid overtime : evidence for West Germany
Pannenberg, Markus - 2002
Why do people work unpaid overtime? We show that remarkable long-term labor earnings gains are associated with unpaid overtime in West Germany. A descriptive analysis suggests that over a 10-year period workers with unpaid overtime experience on average at least a 10 percentage points higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414153
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Performance pay and multi-dimensional sorting : productivity, preferences and gender
Dohmen, Thomas (contributor); Falk, Armin (contributor) - 2006
This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first step we elicit subjects' productivity levels. Subjects then face the choice between a fixed or a variable payment scheme. Depending on the treatment, the variable payment is...
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