Effective Working Hours and Wages: The Case of Downward Adjustment via Paid Absenteeism

Christian Pfeifer ()

No 152, Working Paper Series in Economics from University of Lüneburg, Institute of Economics

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).

Keywords: absenteeism; earnings; inequality; wage differentials; working hours (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J22 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2009-11
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