Journal of Labor Economics

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• Here comes the rain again: Weather and the intertemporal substitution of leisure AI翻译
  作者：Connolly, Marie
  作者单位：Princeton University
  摘要：I revisit the intertemporal labor supply framework, using exogenous variations in daily weather to see how time at work varies with rain. In my model, a rainy day is associated with a lower enjoyment of leisure, effectively increasing wages and bringing more hours at work. I test the model using data from the American Time Use Survey, supplemented with daily weather. I find that, on rainy days, men shift on average 30 minutes from leisure to work. Computations give a rough estimate of the inte...
• Vive la revolution! Long-term educational returns of 1968 to the angry students AI翻译
  作者：Maurin, Eric; McNally, Sandra
  作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
  摘要：The famous events of May 1968, starting with student riots, threw France into a state of turmoil. As a result, normal examination procedures were abandoned, and the pass rate for various qualifications increased enormously. The lowering of thresholds at critical stages of the education system enabled a proportion of students to pursue more years of higher education than would otherwise have been possible. For those on the margin of passing their examinations, additional years of higher educati...
• The intergenerational effects of worker displacement AI翻译
  作者：Oreopoulos, Philip; Page, Marianne; Stevens, Ann Huff
  作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis; University of Toronto
  摘要：This article uses variation induced by firm closures to explore the intergenerational effects of worker displacement using a Canadian panel of administrative data that follows more than 39,000 father-son pairs from 1978 to 1999. We find that children whose fathers were displaced have annual earnings about 9% lower than similar children whose fathers did not experience an employment shock. They are also more likely to receive unemployment insurance and social assistance. The estimates are drive...
• Cues for timing and coordination: Latitude, Letterman, and longitude AI翻译
  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 ...
• A rent extraction view of employee discounts and benefits AI翻译
  作者：Marino, Anthony M.; Zabojnik, Jan
  作者单位：Queens University - Canada; University of Southern California
  摘要：We examine how firms can use employee discounts and perks to extract information rents from employees who have private information about their preferences and outside opportunities. The firm creates different bundles of the perk and salary in response to different employee characteristics and marginal costs of the perk. Strategic bundling can lead firms to provide perks even without a cost advantage over the outside market and to deviate from the marginal cost pricing. We characterize how opti...
• Transparency, inequity aversion, and the dynamics of peer pressure in teams: Theory and evidence AI翻译
  作者：Mohnen, Alwine; Pokorny, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk
  作者单位：University of Cologne
  摘要：We provide an explanation for peer pressure in teams based on inequity aversion. Analyzing a two-period model with two agents, we find that the effect of inequity aversion strongly depends on the information structure. When contributions are unobservable, agents act as though they were purely selfish. However, when contributions are made transparent at an interim stage, agents exert higher efforts in the first period and adjust their efforts according to the interim information in the second p...
• Unequal pay or unequal employment? A cross-country analysis of gender gaps AI翻译
  作者：Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara
  作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Boston University
  摘要：We analyze gender wage gaps correcting for sample selection induced by nonemployment. We recover wages for the nonemployed using alternative imputation techniques, simply requiring assumptions on the position of imputed wages with respect to the median. We obtain higher median wage gaps on imputed rather than actual wage distributions for several OECD countries. However, this difference is small in the United States, the United Kingdom, and most central and northern EU countries and becomes si...
• Promotions, demotions, halo effects, and the earnings dynamics of American executives AI翻译
  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...
• The expanding workweek? Understanding trends in long work hours among US men, 1979-2006 AI翻译
  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...
• Can principals identify effective teachers? Evidence on subjective performance evaluation in education AI翻译
  作者：Jacob, Brian A.; Lefgren, Lars
  作者单位：National Bureau of Economic Research; Brigham Young University
  摘要：We examine how well principals can distinguish between more and less effective teachers. To put principal evaluations in context, we compare them with the traditional determinants of teacher compensation-education and experience-as well as value-added measures of teacher effectiveness based on student achievement gains. We present out-of-sample predictions that mitigate concerns that the teacher quality and student achievement measures are determined simultaneously. We find that principals ca...