CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Révész, Gábor |
|---|---|
| Title | The changing returns to the long workweek and the trends in the aggregate hours worked |
| Summary | The average length of the workweek and the prevalence of long work hours has risen over the past decades. I point out that this empirically well-documented trend is compatible with a simple model of the labor market where workers use education and hours of work for signaling. I demonstrate that the long hours premium, i.e. the additional compensation for an hour of work over a certain threshold, has increased for the respondents of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth between the two cohorts (1979 and 1997) of the survey. |
| Supervisor | Earle, John S. |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/revesz_gabor.pdf |
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