12 Million Salaried Workers are Missing

Hamermesh, Daniel S.

doi:10.1177/001979390205500405

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“…This difference is significant because the short run opportunity cost of 1 hour worked less among salary paid workers is arguably zero or very small, while for hourly paid workers the short run opportunity cost of 1 hour less of work is the forgone hourly wage. To the extent that salary paid workers are associated with white collar jobs, and hourly paid workers are associated with blue collar jobs (Hamermesh 2002), this result highlights an important source in labor market differences among workers with different pay frequency in the United States.…”

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The Flexibility of the Workweek in the United States: Evidence From the Fifa World Cup

Lozano

2010

Economic Inquiry

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. In this paper I explore the flexibility of the work week in the United States, using the FIFA Soccer World Cup as a natural experiment. My empirical strategy exploits the exogenous variation that arises due to which country hosts the World Cup, as this will determine the time games are broadcast across different time zones in the United States. The hour of the day when games are broadcast differentially affects hours of work across different time zones. Further, the calendar timing of the World Cup allows me to compare labor market outcomes in June/July for a worker in World Cup year t, with the outcomes in June/July for a worker in non-World Cup years t + 1, t + 2 and t + 3. My results highlight the importance of the worker's pay frequency in their work week flexibility, as all differences in hours of work due to the World Cup are concentrated among salary paid workers, while hourly paid workers do not change their market hours during the World Cup. Also, my results show that after controlling for observable demographic characteristics as well as year and month fixed effects, a worker reduces on average his weekly number of hours of work during the World Cup by statistically significant estimates that range from 9 weekly minutes to 28 weekly minutes, depending on specification choice and time of the day during which World Cup games are broadcast live in the U.S.JEL Classification: J22, L83

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The Flexibility of the Workweek in the United States: Evidence From the Fifa World Cup

Lozano

2010

Economic Inquiry

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“…This paper has documented a rise in the share of workers paid by the hour in Canada since 1983 that is similar to that in the United States studied by Hamermesh (2002). As in the United States, these patterns are unexpected as they are at odds with projections based on 1995 SWA data and also seem to represent a break from past trends.…”

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Canadian Evidence on the Hourly Paid–Salaried Breakdown: Are Canadian Salaried Workers Missing Too?

Shannon¹

2008

Industrial Relations

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Hamermesh (2002) documents the unexpected rise in the share of American workers paid by the hour. This paper uses establishment data to show that an even larger increase occurred in Canada. The Canadian increase cannot be explained by changes in industry composition or by changes in worker and job characteristics. It appears that Canadian salaried workers have also “gone missing,” adding to Hamermesh's puzzle and suggesting that a satisfactory explanation should fit both American and Canadian experiences.

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“…In the end, salaried jobs constitute 30 percent of all jobs in our sample, similar to other estimates (cf. Hamermesh, 2002).…”

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How Biased are Measures of Cyclical Movements in Productivity and Hours?

Aaronson

Figura

2005

FEDS

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The movement of hours worked over the business cycle is an important input into the estimation of many key parameters in macroeconomics. Unfortunately, the available data on hours do not correspond precisely to the concept required for accurate inference. We study one source of mismeasurement-that the most commonly used source data measure hours paid instead of hours worked. In particular, we focus our attention on salaried workers, a group for whom the gap between hours paid and hours worked is likely to be large. We show that the measurement gap varies significantly and positively with changes in labor demand. As a result, we estimate that the standard deviations of the workweek and of total hours worked are 27 and 5 percent larger, respectively, than published measures of hours suggest. We also find that this measurement gap is unlikely to be the source of the acceleration in published measures of productivity in the early 2000s.

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12 Million Salaried Workers are Missing

Cited by 14 publications

References 15 publications

The Flexibility of the Workweek in the United States: Evidence From the Fifa World Cup

The Flexibility of the Workweek in the United States: Evidence From the Fifa World Cup

Canadian Evidence on the Hourly Paid–Salaried Breakdown: Are Canadian Salaried Workers Missing Too?

How Biased are Measures of Cyclical Movements in Productivity and Hours?

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