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in discrimination, gender, sports economics Tags: gender wage gap
wage cuts are so common that they throw efficient contracting theory into doubt
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From https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.33.3.185
Employees are more likely to accept cuts in hours than cuts in wages per hour because a reduction in hours reduces output and profits for the employer too and therefore is less likely to be opportunistic.
hours worked by US hourly employees down over 50%; hourly workers are 60 percent of workforce #COVID19
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https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/LPg4v/2/ Via http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2020/03/daily-data-on-hours-worked.html
Source: Homebase at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTf0Ce37p3B0Qy-5BZPh1p9-WwEekPOxVdpMsumy6JFeCIt9EO6ZxbGNpnNxjdf9Mr9USeIMqjq9YU0/pubhtml#
When was the Sick Man of Europe on a 3-day week for 10 weeks? #COVID19
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in business cycles, economic history, labour supply, macroeconomics, unions
Central planners forget yet another essential service #COVID19 #Hayekianknowledgeproblem
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The economic impact of Britain’s three-day week from 1 January to 11 March 1974 #COVID19
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Lee Ohanian on Japan’s Lost Decade
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in business cycles, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, Edward Prescott, fiscal policy, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics
More from Murphy and Topel on why efficiency wages theory falls down
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Why Murphy and Topel do not think much of efficiency wages theory
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in applied price theory, economics of information, labour economics, personnel economics
How much of 20th century growth were one-off productivity gains?
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