Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5092069 | Journal of Comparative Economics | 2015 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
Workers in cooperatives are self-employed workers and, if they resemble employees in conventional workplaces, they care about the length of their working hours. In this paper, their choice of hours is characterized as a conventional labor supply decision and a familiar hours-wage relationship is derived. This is estimated using mill-year observations on the plywood co-ops in the Pacific Northwest. The results are compared with those from the work behavior of other self-employed workers and with working hours in capitalist plywood mills.
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Authors
John Pencavel,