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Atypical Work and Pay
Author(s) -
Addison John T.,
Surfield Christopher J.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
southern economic journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.762
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 2325-8012
pISSN - 0038-4038
DOI - 10.1002/j.2325-8012.2007.tb00817.x
Subject(s) - earnings , wage , economics , human capital , work (physics) , compensation (psychology) , set (abstract data type) , function (biology) , labour economics , empirical evidence , skewness , demographic economics , econometrics , psychology , accounting , computer science , social psychology , mechanical engineering , philosophy , epistemology , evolutionary biology , engineering , biology , programming language , economic growth
Atypical work has long been criticized in popular debate as providing poorly compensated, precarious employment. Yet the empirical evidence is both incomplete and mixed. The main contribution of the present paper is to estimate wage differences for the full set of these alternative work arrangements while simultaneously controlling for observed demographic characteristics and unobserved person‐specific fixed effects. The paper also allows for the skewness in atypical worker earnings while retaining the Mincerian human capital earnings function. Our improved estimates are consistent with some of the more optimistic findings reported in the literature, the caveat being that we are examining here only the wage component of the total compensation package.