Do wages compensate for anticipated working time restrictions? Evidence from seasonal employment in Austria

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Del Bono, Emilia; Weber, Andrea
• 署名单位: University of Essex; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/522070
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 181-221
• 关键词: unemployment; differentials; RISK

摘要

This article investigates the existence of compensating wage differentials across seasonal and long-term jobs that arise due to anticipated working time restrictions. Using longitudinal information from the Austrian administrative records, we derive a definition of seasonality based on observed regularities in employment patterns. As wages change across seasonal and long-term jobs for the same individual over time, we can control for individual-specific effects and use variation in the starting month of seasonal jobs as an exogenous predictor of anticipated unemployment. We find that employers pay, on average, a positive wage differential of about 11% for seasonal jobs.