This study is designed to address one of the major issues regarding employment contracts that have been widely debated when most businesses were forced shut down by state authorities as part containment measures Covid-19 pandemic. The issue on entitlement employees secure their full wages while they can't perform work at all or partially assigned tasks from home. Therefore, this paper explores ...

Employees Who Become Self-Employed: Do Labour Income and Wages Have an Impact? This paper analyzes the self-employment decision among Swedish-born male employees. The main objective of the paper is to investigate the impact of the relation between the actual and the predicted income on the probability to become self-employed. The predicted income is calculated from a standard income regression ...

Remote work is rapidly increasing in the US. Using data on full-time wage and salary workers from GHIJ-GHIL American Time Use Survey Leave Job Flexibilities Module, we estimate hourly differentials between teleworkers office compare how allocate their time days work-at-home days. an econometric method that relates selection observables with unobservables, find some earn a premium, but it varies...

The selection of workers into part-time jobs, and the wages they earn, are analysed using Canadian data. We focus on the distinction between voluntary and involuntary part-time workers since involuntary part-timers earn substantially lower wages than voluntary part-timers. We nd that the selection of individuals into involuntary part-time work is more closely tied to job characteristics such as...

Modern economies experience recurrent fluctuations in business activity. As output and employment fall in recessions and busts and rise in recoveries and booms, other variables of economic significance also go through lows and highs. One such variable is real wages. Generally speaking, real wages are he cyclical behavior of real wages — wages adjusted for inflation — has changed over time. Befo...

This paper aims at analysing the dynamic properties of real wages over the business cycle. We apply a Bayesian vector autoregressive (BVAR) model and analyse the possible asymmetric behaviour of real wages in response to different macroeconomic shocks. Finally, we use the NBER business cycle periodisation to evaluate how real wages interact with the different shocks during contractions and boom...

Recent research has shown that men's wages rise more rapidly than expected prior to marriage, but interpretations diverge on whether this indicates selection or a causal effect of anticipating marriage. We seek to adjudicate this debate by bringing together literatures on (1) the male marriage wage premium; (2) selection into marriage based on men's economic circumstances; and (3) the transitio...

Wages are determined by the fierce struggle between capitalist and worker. The capitalist inevitably wins. The capitalist can live longer without the worker than the worker can live without him. Combination among capitalists is habitual and effective, while combination among the workers is forbidden and has painful consequences for them. In addition to that, the landowner and the capitalist can...

STEM Graduates, Human Capital Externalities, and Wages in the U.S. Previous research suggests that the local stock of human capital creates positive externalities within local labor markets and plays an important role in regional economic development. However, there is still considerable uncertainty over what types of human capital are most important. Both national and local policymakers in the...

Several recent studies have shown a negative association between motherhood and wages. However, an analysis of change over time in the motherhood penalty has not been conducted. Using two cohorts of young women drawn from the 1975– 1985 National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women and the 1986–1998 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we explicitly test the relationship between motherhood and ...