Taxes, Wages and Working Hours This paper presents estimates of individuals’ responses in hourly wages to changes in marginal tax rates. Estimates based on register panel data of Swedish households covering the period 1992 to 2007 produce significant but relatively small net-of-tax rate elasticities. The results vary with family type, with the largest elasticities obtained for single males and ...

Statistical analyses of the relation between the amount of working hours and impairments to health, based on data from a European survey on working conditions in 2000, clearly reveal that there is a substantial correlation between the number of working hours per week and the frequencies of health complaints. This applies to both musculo-skeletal disorders as well as to psycho-vegetative complai...

This paper studies the degree of complementarity in working hours among coworkers production. Using matched employer-employee data, we first present facts on within-establishment relationship between wages and worked that are consistent with presence complementarities hours. Next, estimate elasticity substitution find it to be 0.69 aggregate 0.52 1.03 across industries. We validate our estimate...