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Title: Occupational Social Value and Returns to Long Hours
Citation Type: Working Paper
Publication Year: 2019
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Abstract: This paper examines the phenomenon of uncompensated long hours in jobs with pro- social characteristics and presents evidence that long-hour wage premiums and occupational social value are substitutes in compensating salaried workers who supply hours exceeding the standard workweek. I show that the social value of an occupation, in particular the degree to which jobs involve helping or providing service to others, is inversely related to long-hour pay. Allowing for heterogeneity in the degree to which workers value their job’s helping orientation allows me to explore how gender differences in employees’ attitudes toward pro-social behavior can explain some of the observed occupational sorting trends and gender differences in long-hour compensation. Women tend to be more strongly drawn to “helping” occupations and and at the same time receive lower long-hour premiums in these jobs relative to men. I offer a theoretical framework to rationalize the empirical trends.
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Authors: Gicheva, Dora
Series Title: Department of Economics Working Paper Series
Publication Number: 19-05
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other
Countries: United States