Journal of Labor Economics Vol. 26 No. 1 2008

Do Wages Compensate for Anticipated Working Time Restrictions? Evidence from Seasonal Employment in Austria

Emilia Del Bono; Andrea Weber^1,2

¹ Institut für Höhere Studien - Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) · ² University of California, Berkeley

Abstract

This article investigates the existence of compensating wage differentials across seasonal and long‐term jobs that arise due to anticipated working time restrictions. Using longitudinal information from the Austrian administrative records, we derive a definition of seasonality based on observed regularities in employment patterns. As wages change across seasonal and long‐term jobs for the same individual over time, we can control for individual‐specific effects and use variation in the starting month of seasonal jobs as an exogenous predictor of anticipated unemployment. We find that employers pay, on average, a positive wage differential of about 11% for seasonal jobs.

DOI

10.1086/522070

Volume

26

Issue

1

Pages

181-221

Language

en

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