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作者：Iranzo, Susana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Tosetti, Elisa
作者单位：University of Cagliari; University of Cambridge
摘要：We study the relation between workers' skill dispersion and firm productivity using a unique data set of Italian manufacturing firms with individual records on all their workers. Our measure of skill is the individual worker's effect from a wage equation. We find that a firm's productivity is positively related to skill dispersion within occupational status groups ( production and nonproduction workers) and negatively related to skill dispersion between these groups. Consistently, most of the ...
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作者：Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Myers, Caitlin Knowles; Pocock, Mark L.
作者单位：National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：Daylight, television schedules, and time zones can alter timing and induce temporal coordination of economic activities. With the American Time Use Survey for 2003 - 2004 and data from Australia for 1992, we show that television schedules and the locations of time zones affect the timing of market work and sleep, with differences in timing being generated partly by returns to coordination with other agents. The responsiveness to time zone differences is greatest among workers in industries in ...
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作者：Belzil, Christian; Bognanno, Michael
作者单位：Institut Polytechnique de Paris; Ecole Polytechnique; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：This paper explores the determinants of earnings growth in corporate hierarchies using static and dynamic panel data techniques. The novelty derives from the distinction between base pay and bonus, the asymmetric effects of promotion and demotion, and the consideration of dynamic effects. We find that the convexity of pay structures is robust to the allowance for unobserved individual heterogeneity. Demotion has a stronger effect on compensation growth in absolute value than promotion. Dynamic...
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作者：Kuhn, Peter; Lozano, Fernando
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara
摘要：According to U. S. Census and Current Population Survey (CPS) data, employed U. S. men are more likely to work more than 48 hours per week today than 25 years ago. Using 1979-2006 CPS data, we show that this increase was greatest in the 1980s, among highly educated, highly paid, and older men, and among workers paid on a salaried basis. We examine some possible explanations for these changes, including composition effects. Among salaried men, increases in long work hours were greatest in detai...
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作者：Hersch, Joni
作者单位：Vanderbilt University
摘要：Using data from the New Immigrant Survey 2003, this article shows that skin color and height affect wages among new lawful immigrants to the United States, controlling for education, English language proficiency, occupation in source country, family background, ethnicity, race, and country of birth. Immigrants with the lightest skin color earn on average 17% more than comparable immigrants with the darkest skin color. Taller immigrants have higher wages, but weight does not affect wages. Contr...
