Work Hours, Wages, and Vacation Leave

Taxes, Wages and Working Hours

Taxes, Wages and Working Hours This paper presents estimates of individuals’ responses in hourly wages to changes in marginal tax rates. Estimates based on register panel data of Swedish households covering the period 1992 to 2007 produce significant but relatively small net-of-tax rate elasticities. The results vary with family type, with the largest elasticities obtained for single males and ...

Women’s Work and Wages*

The Relationship between Wages and Weekly Hours of Work: the Role of Division Bias*

as the analytical framework. Despite the many estimates presented in the literature, there is little agreement on a point estimate of the gross effect of the wage rate on weekly hours of work, except that it is generally negative (i.e., the income effect dominates).2 The fact that the wage elasticity is negative has been used to explain the secular decline of hours of work and is important in c...

The Relationship between Wages and Weekly Hours of Work: The Role of Division Bias

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Mental Hygiene Office Aides Seek Better Deal in Wages , Hours : Conditions of Work

FRANK E, McKINNEy, new cha i rman of the Democratic National Committee, last week came out formally against sin. "A public office is a public t rust ," he re peated, with credit to the late president Grover Cleveland. Mr. McKinney then attacked the g ra f te r s in government, flailing about h inr with a display of oratorical vigor. President T ruman seconded these sentiments with a let ter urg...