Wages, hours and human capital over the life cycle

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Journal Article

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Publication date

June 1, 2008

Abstract:

We investigate wage-hours contracts within a four-period rent sharing
model that incorporates asymmetric information. Distinctions are made
among (a) an investment period, (b) a period in which the parties may
separate (quits or layoffs) or continue rent accumulation and sharing,
(c) a post investment period and, (d) retirement. We establish that
increases in both wage rates and hours of work in the post-investment
period serve to minimise sub-optimal separations and, moreover that
both wage and hours schedules are concave. Testing is based on 13 waves
of British Household Panel Survey from 1991 to 2003.

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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik

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Volume: 228 (5-6):446-464

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