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Ronald L. Oaxaca

University of Arizona, USA, CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg, PRESAGE, France, and IZA, Germany

IZA World of Labor offers a concise, authoritative, and up to date primer on contemporary labor market issues that are globally relevant to policymakers. It succeeds in making the fruits of rigorous academic research accessible to individuals entrusted with the responsibility to ensure efficient and equitable labor market policies

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Author

Current position

McClelland Professor of Economics, University of Arizona, USA

Research interest

Gender wage differentials, economics of overtime hours, economics of multiple job holding, statistical discrimination, law and economics, applied econometrics

Website

http://bit.ly/Oaxaca_IZApage

Past positions

Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA; Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Qualifications

PhD Economics, Princeton University, 1971

Selected publications

  • “Do you receive a lighter prison sentence because you are a woman or a white? An economic analysis of federal criminal sentencing guidelines.” BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 14:1 (2014): 1–54 (with S. Sarnikar and T. Sorensen).

  • “New market power models and sex differences in pay.” Journal of Labor Economics 28:2 (2010): 267–289 (with M. R. Ransom).

  • “A human capital model of the effects of ability and family background on optimal schooling levels.” Economic Inquiry 45:4 (2007): 721–738 (with T. Regan and G. Burghardt).

  • “On discrimination and the decomposition of wage differentials.” Journal of Econometrics (March 1994) (with M. R. Ransom).

  • “Male-female wage differentials in urban labor markets.” International Economic Review (October 1973).

article(s)

  • The effect of overtime regulations on employment Updated

    Strictly controlling overtime hours and pay does not boost employment—it could even lower it

    Ronald L. OaxacaGaliya Sagyndykova, December 2020
    Regulation of standard workweek hours and overtime hours and pay can protect workers who might otherwise be required to work more than they would like to at the going rate. By discouraging the use of overtime, such regulation can increase the standard hourly wage of some workers and encourage work sharing that increases employment, with particular advantages for female workers. However, regulation of overtime raises employment costs, setting in motion economic forces that can limit, neutralize, or even reduce employment. And increasing the coverage of overtime pay regulations has little effect on the share of workers who work overtime or on weekly overtime hours per worker.
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