This paper examines the impact of the Dutch R&D tax incentives program, known as WBSO, on the wages of R&D workers. In our model these wages are partly determined by the government’s WBSO tax disbursements. We construct detailed firmand time specific R&D tax credit rates as a function of the R&D tax incentives scheme to capture the wage effects of the government R&D support. An instrumentalvari...

Using a longitudinal data set covering the period 1987–2000, the authors explore the impact of female employers and gender segregation on wages in Portugal. In the context of Becker’s (1957) taste for discrimination theory, they investigate whether the gender of a firm manager affects gender wage differences. They find that females benefit from higher wages in female-led firms than in male-led ...

This paper studies wage setting in a directed search model of multiworker firms facing within-firm equity constraints on wages. The reduce wages, as exploit their monopsony power over existing workers, rendering wages less responsive to productivity doing so. They also give rise time inconsistency the dynamic firm problem, face elastic labor supply short run than long run, making commitment fut...

The relationship between human capital and wages has always been discussed by labor economics; however, the recent literature less focused less on the influence of health factors. Therefore, this study makes use of sample data gathered from Panel Study of Family Dynamics (PSFD) to construct a wage-estimated regression which contains several human capital related factors such as health, educatio...

We extend the benchmark RBC model amending the technology for e ciency wage considerations. The disutility of e ort depends on current, alternative and past wages. Past wages are treated as the worker's past wages (personal norm case) or as the past wages of the society (social norm case). This last model reproduces the high variability of employment, the low variability of wages and the low wa...

While economists have long been interested in effects of health and human capital on productivity, less attention has been paid to the influence of time use. We investigate the productivity effects of the single largest use of time—sleep. Because sleep influences performance on memory and focus intensive tasks, it plausibly affects economic outcomes. We identify the effect of sleep on wages by ...

Past research has consistently found that the negative relationship between housework and wages is stronger for women than for men. This article tests a potential explanation for this difference by focusing on the fact that men and women typically perform different types of household chores. Traditionally ‘‘feminine’’ and ‘‘masculine’’ task types are likely to interfere with work differently, b...

This paper estimates a simultaneous model of moderate and problem drinking, smoking, and wages using a random sample of employed Canadian men. The results indicate that sample selection into alcohol and tobacco use is not negligible. With all else in the system held constant, moderate and heavy drinking are both associated with considerably higher wages than abstention from drinking, whereas sm...