Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/30237 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series in Economics No. 152
Publisher: 
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Lüneburg
Abstract: 
This paper compares contractual with effective working hours and wages, respectively. Effective working hours are defined as contractual working hours minus absent working hours. This approach takes into account workers' downward adjustment of working time via paid absenteeism if working time constraints are present, which induce workers to accept contracts with larger than their optimal choice of working hours. A German personnel data set, which contains precise information on wages as well as working and absence hours, is used to assess the impact of such downward adjustment on wage inequality and wage differentials (gender, schooling, age).
Subjects: 
Absenteeism
earnings
inequality
wage differentials
working hours
JEL: 
J22
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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