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Working Time as an Investment?: The Effects of Unpaid Overtime on Wages, Promotions, and Layoffs
Anger, Silke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
as higher future wages and probabilities of promotion or job retention, which might help to explain why an increasing … whether working a higher number of unpaid extra hours involves a higher probability of promotion and excess earnings growth …, and a lower probability of layoff in subsequent years. The pooled, random effects, and fixed effects logit estimates …
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Military retention incentives : evidence from the Air Force selective reenlistment bonus
Joffrion, Justin; Wozny, Nathan - 2015
The limited lateral entry and rigid pay structure for U.S. military personnel present challenges in retaining skilled individuals who have attractive options in the civilian labor market. One tool the services use to address this challenge is the Selective Reenlistment Bonus (SRB), which offers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513381
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Military retention incentives: Evidence from the Air Force selective reenlistment bonus
Joffrion, Justin; Wozny, Nathan - 2015
The limited lateral entry and rigid pay structure for U.S. military personnel present challenges in retaining skilled individuals who have attractive options in the civilian labor market. One tool the services use to address this challenge is the Selective Reenlistment Bonus (SRB), which offers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418264
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Job loss and household labor supply adjustments in developing countries : evidence from Argentina
Ciaschi, Matías; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2022
Using longitudinal data for Argentina, we estimate the labor supply reaction of spouses and children to their husband's or father's job loss. Our findings show that job loss by the household head has a positive and significant impact on the labor supply of other household members. However, it...
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Labor force participation and pair-wise efficient contracts with search and bargaining
Engelhardt, Bryan; Fuller, David L. - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 3, pp. 388-402
A “constant” wage is pair-wise inefficient in a standard search model when workers endogenously separate from employment. We derive a pair-wise efficient employment contract that involves workers paying a hiring fee (or bond) upon the formation of a match. We estimate the constant wage and...
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Sharing High Growth Across Generations: Pensions and Demographic Transition in China
Song, Zheng Michael; Storesletten, Kjetil; Zilibotti, … - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2012
Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China’s aging population threatens the fiscal sustainability of its pension system, a key vehicle for intergenerational redistribution. We analyze the positive and normative effects of alternative...
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Luxembourg; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
This Selected Issues paper on Luxembourg reports that exemplary high growth rates and prudent fiscal policies provided the financial basis for the welfare system. Social expenditures in per capita terms, even adjusted for the large number of cross-border workers, rank highest among European...
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Tax, Welfare, and Pension Reforms in Slovenia; Implications for Work Incentives and Labor Participation
Egoumé-Bossogo, Philippe; Tuladhar, Anita - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
The labor participation rate in Slovenia has been lower than in the EU-15 (the members states prior to May 2004), particularly for the low-income and older individuals. Using simulations of tax and social benefits and public pensions, the paper shows how the current tax, welfare, and pension...
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Asymmetric labor-supply responses to wage-rate changes : evidence from a field experiment
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Duncan, Denvil; Löffler, Max - 2016
The standard labor-supply literature typically assumes that the labor supply response to wage increases is the same as that for equivalent wage decreases. However, evidence from the behavioral-economics literature suggests that people are loss averse and thus perceive losses differently than...
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A collective household model of time allocation : a comparison of native Dutch and immigrant households in the Netherlands
Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Maassen … - 2006
Although the number of immigrant households in the Netherlands is substantial, the labor supply choices of this group are usually neglected in empirical studies because these households are usually under-sampled. We use a stratified sample of Turkish, Surinamese/Antillean and Dutch households...
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