Browsing by Subject "Wages -- United States"

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    • Compensating Differentials for Sexual Harassment 
      Hersch, Joni, 1956- (American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2011)
      This paper provides evidence of the relation between the risk of sexual harassment and wages. While one approach to detecting the effect on wages of sexual harassment would be to estimate wage equations controlling for ...
    • Housework, Wages, and the Division of Housework Time for Employed Spouses 
      Hersch, Joni, 1956-; Stratton, Leslie S. (American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 1994)
      While the popular press may have declared housework passe with the advent of the two-income household (see "Housework is Obsolescent" by Barbara Ehrenreich [1993] for one such example), the facts indicate that housework ...
    • Moral Hazard and Merit Rating Over Time: An Analysis of Optimal Intertemporal Wage Structures 
      Viscusi, W. Kip (Southern Economic Journal, 1986)
      In situations of uncertain worker productivity and risk aversion, labor market contracts have a dual objective of promoting incentives and risk spreading. A trade-off between these objectives is present in single period ...