Working Long Hours and Early Career Outcomes in the High-End Labor Market

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Gicheva, Dora
• 署名单位: University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Greensboro
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/669971
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 785-824
• 关键词: promotion dynamics; rat race; wage; tournaments; ECONOMICS; firm; men; gap; US

摘要

This study establishes empirically a positive but nonlinear relationship between weekly hours and hourly wage growth. For workers who put in over 47 hours per week, 5 extra hours are associated with a 1% increase in annual wage growth. This correlation is not present when hours are lower. The relationship is especially strong for young professionals. Data on promotions provide evidence in support of a job-ladder model that combines higher skill sensitivity of output in higher-level jobs with heterogeneous preferences for leisure. The results can be used to account for part of the gender wage gap.