Arbeitspapier
Effective working hours and wages: the case of downward adjustment via paid absenteeism
This paper compares contractual with effective working hours and wages, respectively. Effective working hours are defined as contractual working hours minus absent working hours. This approach takes into account workers' downward adjustment of working time via paid absenteeism if working time constraints are present, which induce workers to accept contracts with larger than their optimal choice of working hours. A German personnel data set, which contains precise information on wages as well as working and absence hours, is used to assess the impact of such downward adjustment on wage inequality and wage differentials (gender, schooling, age).
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper Series in Economics ; No. 152
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- Thema
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Absenteeism
earnings
inequality
wage differentials
working hours
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Pfeifer, Christian
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Veröffentlichung
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Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
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Lüneburg
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2009
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Pfeifer, Christian
- Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
Entstanden
- 2009