Are changes in the dispersion of hours worked a cause of increased earnings inequality?

Daniele Checchi, Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa and Lara Vivian

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: Earnings are the product of wages and hours of work; hence, the dispersion of hours can magnify or dampen a given distribution of wages. This paper examines how earnings inequality is affected by the dispersion of working hours using data for the USA, the UK, Germany, and France over the period 1989–2012. We find that hours dispersion can account for over a third of earnings inequality in some countries and that its contribution has been growing over time. We interpret the expansion in hours inequality in European countries as being the result of weaker union power that led to less successful bargaining concerning working hours.

Keywords: Economie; quantitative (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-12
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (17)

Published in IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2016, 5 (5), ⟨10.1186/s40174-016-0065-2⟩

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
Journal Article: Are changes in the dispersion of hours worked a cause of increased earnings inequality? (2016)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01440291

DOI: 10.1186/s40174-016-0065-2

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().