Peer pressure or personal choice? How peer working hours shape individual working hours preferences https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:ifsowp:315193&r=&r=exp
"We show that colleagues’ working hours causally affect working hours preferences. The reasons given by the respondents for choosing the stated working hours, by contrast, are primarily personal. This shows that preferences are socially determined, even if they are rationalised in individualistic terms. Our findings emphasise the importance of collective action for working time policy and highlight methodological challenges that need to be considered when analysing and interpreting working time preferences."
#LaborEcon #ExperimentalEcon

Firms’ Beliefs About Wage Setting https://openaccess.nhh.no/nhh-xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/3182213/DP%2005.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
"… a significant minority of firms misperceive their position in the wage distribution… approximately 18 percent of firms hold inaccurate beliefs about their wage relative to other firms.
… the primary motivation for paying higher #wages is the desire to attract new candidates and retain incumbent employees. In contrast, compensating differentials for unfavorable job amenities emerge as the least common justification for offering higher wages"
#LaborEcon #retention #wageTransparency

Working Hours and Workers' Health: Evidence from a National Experiment in Sweden https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp17707&r=&r=eur
"The regulation of working hours is one of the oldest concerns in employment legislation due to its importance for protecting workers’ physical and mental #health and maintaining labour #productivity.
… new causal evidence on the impact of reduced working hours on worker mortality: the implementation of the 8-hour workday reduced average annual mortality rates among affected workers by around 15% over the first seven years. These results are particularly pronounced among older workers and largely driven by decreases in deaths from workplace accidents, disability cases, and sick days.
… reducing working hours could be an important strategy to improve worker health and reduce mortality, particularly in labour-intensive sectors."
#LaborEcon #employmentLaw

Gender Differences in the Duration of Sick Leave: Economics or Biology https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:glodps:1542&r=&r=lab
"men and women recover at different rates for the same injuries, with biological differences explaining the majority of the observed gender gap.
… men tend to use more sick leave days for reasons unrelated to #health recovery. The findings offer valuable insights for policymakers and employers, providing an empirical foundation for targeted policies that reduce gender-based #discrimination in the workplace and ensure fairer resource allocation."
#LaborEcon

Measurement Error in Earnings https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cqe:wpaper:10824&r=&r=lma
"… survey earnings instead of administrative earnings produce an
underestimation of 8% of monthly earnings…The measurement error is non-normal, skewed, & mean-reverting.
Females seem
to produce more accurate measurements of their earnings, while males’ reports are an over/understatement of their gross earnings, rendering descriptions of inequality potentially inaccurate."
#LaborEcon #wages

Not incentivized yet efficient: Working from home in the public sector https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cep:cepdps:dp2036&r=&r=lma
"… workers who are highly productive at home are also highly productive at the office
… most workers are more productive when assigned to #WFH than WFO
… WFH increases productivity by 12%. These #productivity gains are primarily driven by reduced distractions. They are not explained by differences in quality, shift length, or task allocation. "
#LaborEcon #RTO

A New Indicator of Labor Market Tightness for Predicting Wage Inflation https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2024/10/a-new-indicator-of-labor-market-tightness-for-predicting-wage-inflation/
The "Tightness Index of quits & vacancies per searcher performs well in summarizing labor market tightness for the purposes of determining wage inflation. The relationship remained strong during the COVID period and recovery, suggesting that the empirical relationship documented is robust to even large, unusual economic shocks."
#LaborEcon #wages

#CfP: 6th World Labor Conference, June 27–29, 2025, Toronto, Ontario Canada

https://www.sole-jole.org/upcoming-meeting
https://www.sole-jole.org/assets/docs/SOLE2025/SOLE%202025%20Call%20for%20Papers.pdf

Submission deadline Dec 1, 2024
#SOLE #EALE #AASLE #LaborEcon

Age & Cognitive Skills: Use It or Lose It https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.00790
"…average skills increase into the forties before decreasing slightly in literacy & more strongly in numeracy
…skills decline at older ages only for those with below-average skill usage. White-collar & higher-educated workers with above-average usage show increasing #skills even beyond their forties. Women have larger skill losses at older age, particularly in numeracy"
#aging #LaborEcon

Evolving Beveridge Curve Dynamics https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/media/75496/download?attachment
"the Beveridge Curve represents the impact of multiple shocks: in addition to the productivity & job destruction shocks… wage & demand shocks are also important
… the slope generated by wage shocks is smaller than the curves generated by productivity & demand shocks: the increasing importance of these shocks therefore implies a flattening of the aggregate Beveridge Curve."
#LaborEcon #wages

via @upjohninstitute
New research shows that job design—the choices employers make about the actual tasks workers are assigned—could provide a route to higher-paying jobs for the future.
https://www.upjohn.org/research-highlights/businesses-can-support-higher-paying-jobs-giving-workers-more-autonomy
#wages #LaborEcon

Skills and Human Capital in the Labor Market
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w32908/w32908.pdf
"…argue for a new approach that treats workers as agents who decide how to allocate their labor over job tasks.
Traditional cognitive #skills make workers more productive in any task, while higher-order skills govern workers’ choices of which tasks to perform and whether to work alone or in a team."
#LaborEcon

‪RT Aaron Sojourner‬ @aaronsojourner.org‬
"A Cut in the CPS Sample Size Would Put Reliable Measurement of U.S. Unemployment at Risk"

American Economics Association Committee on Statistics statement on BLS funding shortage that's undercutting the Current Population Survey.

https://www.aeaweb.org/content/file?id=21048
#economics #statistics #LaborEcon

Trust, Intangible Assets, and Productivity https://www.nber.org/papers/w32513
"… productivity gains stemming from the use of intangibles are boosted where social #trust is high and where hiring and firing restrictions are low
…mediating effects of trust in the relationship between intangibles and productivity are most likely channeled by the better ability to implement efficiency-enhancing management practices in a high trust environment"
#LaborEcon

LABOR-LLM: Language-Based Occupational Representations with Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.17972
"For the task of next job prediction, we demonstrate that models trained with our approach outperform several alternatives in terms of predictive performance on the survey data, including traditional econometric models, CAREER, and LLMs with in-context learning"
#LaborEcon #llm #CareerPaths

Delighted to be presenting next week at the @georgemasonu Institute for #Immigration Research

I'll give an opinionated overview of what the economics research literature suggests for better policy at the US Southwest border

https://iir.gmu.edu/events/15408 #LaborEcon

Continuing #LaborEcon thread on new immigration papers…

Wages of US-trained, temporary foreign H-1B workers in high-skill jobs are 34% higher than US natives of the same age/field/degree/gender/etc.

Inconsistent w/ large downward wage pressure

By Omid Bagheri—> https://www.thecgo.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Are_College_Graduate_Immigrants_on_Work_Visas_Cheaper_than_Natives.pdf

(I know that's not what the abstract says, but what it should say is exp[0.295]-1 = 0.34)

A top candidate for president promises the largest deportation in US history, starting in 10 months.

He promises this will create good jobs for US workers.

But history shows this plan will destroy US jobs—hundreds of thousands per year.

Here's why—> https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2024/trumps-proposed-mass-deportations-would-backfire-us-workers #LaborEcon #immigration

#CfP for our Summer Academy 2024: "#LaborMarket Dynamics in Turbulent Times: Addressing the Challenges of War, Climate Change, and Technological Shifts". In cooperation with APB Tutzing and EACES.
🗓️ Submission deadline: April 8, 2024
➡️ https://leibniz-ios.de/en/knowledge-transfer/news/newsdetail/callf-for-papers-fuer-die-16-summer-academy-des-ios #Economics #LaborEcon #LaborEconomics

Continuing #LaborEcon 🧵 on striking new #immigration papers

Quantifying a novel channel for the effect of immigration on native wages:

By taking more hazardous jobs, immigrant workers reduce natives' compensating differential for hazards

By Sparber & Zavodny —> https://doi.org/10.1177/00197939211021379