PRODUCTIVITY AND EFFORT: THE LABOR-SUPPLY DECISIONS OF LATE VICTORIAN COALMINERS
PRODUCTIVITY AND EFFORT: THE LABOR-SUPPLY DECISIONS OF LATE VICTORIAN COALMINERS
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生产力和努力：维多利亚时代晚期煤矿工人的劳动力供应决策
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10.1017/s0022050701028066
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发表时间：
2001
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J. Treble
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作者：
J. Treble
人们普遍认为，世纪后期英国煤矿生产率下降的主要原因之一是，当工资率上升时，矿工们的反应是减少工作努力和/或出勤率。然而，以前的实证研究混淆了行为反应与煤层质量和工资率之间的相关性。使用单个面板数据从一个单一的矿山，我表明，工人的努力，短期工资弹性实际上是积极的。出勤率的真实弹性还不太清楚，但当工资率上升时，缺勤率上升的观点没有得到支持。
It is widely believed that one of the main causes of productivity decline in British coalmining in the late nineteenth century was that when wage rates increased, miners responded by reducing work effort and/or attendance. However, previous empirical studies have conflated behavioral responses with correlations between coal-seam quality and wage rates. Using individual panel data from a single mine, I show that the short-run wage elasticity of worker effort was in fact positive. The true elasticity of attendance is less clear, but there is no support for the idea that absenteeism increased when wage rates rose.