Robert Drago
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 293071 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robert Drago |
| NOMBRES | Robert |
| APELLIDO | Drago |
| FIRMA | DRAGO R |
| AFILIACIONES | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2701-5918 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 103 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Lifetime probabilities of multigenerational caregiving and labor force attachment in Australia
An aging population has increased the prevalence of multigenerational caregiving (MGC), defined as unpaid care for an adult while having a dependent child in the household. Policymakers are simultaneously promoting labor force attachment in response to pop
Wage Differential and Structure
ATM Fees at Black and Hispanic Owned Single Market Banks
This paper presents evidence regarding three types of ATM fees: foreign fees charged for use of a non-bank ATM by the bank's customers, surcharges for use of bank ATMs by non-customers, and balance inquiry charges for the bank's own customers. It is hypothesized that, among single market banks, fees will be positively correlated with bank size, a lack of market competition, market penetration by multimarket banks, banks serving low income communi…
Did Australia’s Baby Bonus Increase Fertility Intentions and Births
Working Time Mismatch and Subjective Well‐being
This study uses nationally representative panel survey data for Australia to identify the role played by mismatches between hours actually worked and working time preferences in contributing to reported levels of job and life satisfaction. Three main conclusions emerge. First, it is not the number of hours worked that matters for subjective well‐being, but working time mismatch. Second, overemployment is a more serious problem than is underemploy…
Bias Avoidance
Bias avoidance behaviour arises when individuals minimize or hide family commitments to achieve career success. Bias avoidance behaviour can be divided into productive types of behaviour that free up more time and energy for a career and unproductive ones types that involve hiding or covering up caregiving commitments. This article compares reports of bias avoidance from chemistry and English faculty in US and Australian colleges and universities…
Who Wants and Gets Flexibility? Changing Work Hours Preferences and Life Events
Using panel data for 2001-2005 from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, the authors examine workers' desires for, and achievement of, work hour flexibility. They estimate a dynamic model that controls for preferences in previous years and tests for the effects of life events on both desired employment and desired work hours. Many life events, such as motherhood and retirement, are found to have predictable effec…
The Avoidance of Bias Against Caregiving
The authors analyze bias avoidance behaviors, whereby employees respond to biases against caregiving in the workplace by strategically minimizing or hiding family commitments. They divide bias avoidance behaviors into productive types that improve work performance and unproductive types that are inefficient. Original survey data from 4,188 chemistry and English faculty in 507 U.S. colleges and universities suggest both types of bias avoidance are…
Usual and Preferred Working Hours in Couple Households
Data from a representative survey of adult Australians are analysed for usual and preferred paid working time across couple types. We discover a time divide – many individuals working short hours desire longer hours of paid employment, while many individuals working long hours prefer shorter hours. The latter group is larger, with the average employee desiring fewer hours. For dual-earner couples with children, men average approximately 20 hours …
Female breadwinner families
We develop a typology for understanding couple households where the female is the major earner - what we term female breadwinner households - and test it using data from the first two waves of the HILDA Survey. We distinguish temporary from persistent female breadwinner households and hypothesize, and confirm, that these two groups diverge on demographic, socio-economic status (SES), labour market and family commitment characteristics. Among the …
Working in a 24/7 Economy
Sustaining the New Economy
Preface 1. Our Work in a Changing Economy 2. New Technology and Job Markets 3. The Transformations of Work in the New Global Economy 4. The New Family and Flexible Work 5. Redefining Community in a Flexible Economy 6. Sustaining the New Economy References Index
Mapping the Terrain of Work/Family Journals
An expanding body of published research addresses the relationship between paid employment and commitments to kin, an area referred to as work/family research. Largely relying on an electronic database located at Boston College, the authors analyze the prevalence of relevant articles in various journals and the extent of the likely audience for such articles in those journals in an attempt to obtain a well-defined map. The analysis yields ranking…
In Memoriam
This study uses time diary and telephone survey data from a nonrandom sample of 310 US public, elementary school teachers in 46 schools and four school districts to analyze the sources of time for employed parents to devote to their children in the US. Comparing parent and nonparent teachers for a 24-hour working day reveals that American parents spend significantly less time on work, personal time, passive leisure, and exercise, and significantl…
Time on the Job and Time with Their Kids
This study uses time diary and telephone survey data from a nonrandom sample of 310 US public, elementary school teachers in 46 schools and four school districts to analyze the sources of time for employed parents to devote to their children in the US. Comparing parent and nonparent teachers for a 24-hour working day reveals that American parents spend significantly less time on work, personal time, passive leisure, and exercise, and significantl…
The Willingness-to-Pay for Work/Family Policies
Recent evidence suggests that employers and employees may benefit from work/family policies and that even non-beneficiaries may support such policies. The authors posit that these policies generate not only "use" values (values for those who rely on them), but also, based on a particular norm of social justice, "need" values (values received by all individuals, regardless of expectations of direct benefit). Combining the median voter model with t…
A Half-Time Tenure Track Proposal
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJoan Williams Robert Drago is professor of labor studies at the Pennsylvania State University, and is moderator of the work and family Internet newsgroup found on the Web at la.psu.edu/sir/workfam. He is principal investigator on the Faculty & Families Project funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Joan Williams is professor of law at the American University, director of the Gender, Work, and Family Proje…
T ime for S urveys
A Simple Model of Guilt with an Application to Unstaffed Roadside Stands
This paper introduces an analyses of the notion of guilt, the"bad feeling" we get when we harm someone. It is suggested that attempts to avoid the experience of guilt help to explain a variety of economic behaviors, such as those surrounding moral hazard in the workplace, voting, or criminal activities. A formal model of guilt is provided and used to explain the existence and other characteristics of unstaffed roadside stands
Workgroups, Efficiency Wages and Work Effort
(1992). Workgroups, Efficiency Wages and Work Effort. Journal of Post Keynesian Economics: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 497-521.
Is Worker Behaviour Consistent With Efficiency Wages
A model of worker behavior under efficiency wages is presented and the fundamental hypotheses identified. Using survey data from the United States, a cross-sectional testing equation is estimated. While not uniformly successful, the fundamental results emerge as a strong positive partial correlation between reported effort and the wage rate of the employee and between that same effort measure and degree of monitoring. These results, together with…
The Determinants of Labor Absence
The authors analyze causes of absence from work using data from a survey distributed in 1988 to workers in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. The results indicate that workgroup cohesion (the degree to which employees work together closely and harmoniously) was associated with low levels of absence if job satisfaction was high, but with high levels of absence if job satisfaction was low. Some employee characteristics associate…
The Microeconomic Issues in Labour Economics
Tournaments, Piece Rates, and the Shape of the Payoff Function
Shifting Gears, Changing Labor Relations in the U.S. Automobile Industry
The Avoidance of Bias Against Caregiving
The authors analyze bias avoidance behaviors, whereby employees respond to biases against caregiving in the workplace by strategically minimizing or hiding family commitments. They divide bias avoidance behaviors into productive types that improve work performance and unproductive types that are inefficient. Original survey data from 4,188 chemistry and English faculty in 507 U.S. colleges and universities suggest both types of bias avoidance are…
Female breadwinner families
We develop a typology for understanding couple households where the female is the major earner - what we term female breadwinner households - and test it using data from the first two waves of the HILDA Survey. We distinguish temporary from persistent female breadwinner households and hypothesize, and confirm, that these two groups diverge on demographic, socio-economic status (SES), labour market and family commitment characteristics. Among the …
Did Australia’s Baby Bonus Increase Fertility Intentions and Births
The Determinants of Labor Absence
The authors analyze causes of absence from work using data from a survey distributed in 1988 to workers in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. The results indicate that workgroup cohesion (the degree to which employees work together closely and harmoniously) was associated with low levels of absence if job satisfaction was high, but with high levels of absence if job satisfaction was low. Some employee characteristics associate…
Who Wants and Gets Flexibility? Changing Work Hours Preferences and Life Events
Using panel data for 2001-2005 from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, the authors examine workers' desires for, and achievement of, work hour flexibility. They estimate a dynamic model that controls for preferences in previous years and tests for the effects of life events on both desired employment and desired work hours. Many life events, such as motherhood and retirement, are found to have predictable effec…
Usual and Preferred Working Hours in Couple Households
Data from a representative survey of adult Australians are analysed for usual and preferred paid working time across couple types. We discover a time divide – many individuals working short hours desire longer hours of paid employment, while many individuals working long hours prefer shorter hours. The latter group is larger, with the average employee desiring fewer hours. For dual-earner couples with children, men average approximately 20 hours …
Time on the Job and Time with Their Kids
This study uses time diary and telephone survey data from a nonrandom sample of 310 US public, elementary school teachers in 46 schools and four school districts to analyze the sources of time for employed parents to devote to their children in the US. Comparing parent and nonparent teachers for a 24-hour working day reveals that American parents spend significantly less time on work, personal time, passive leisure, and exercise, and significantl…
Mapping the Terrain of Work/Family Journals
An expanding body of published research addresses the relationship between paid employment and commitments to kin, an area referred to as work/family research. Largely relying on an electronic database located at Boston College, the authors analyze the prevalence of relevant articles in various journals and the extent of the likely audience for such articles in those journals in an attempt to obtain a well-defined map. The analysis yields ranking…
Tournaments, Piece Rates, and the Shape of the Payoff Function
Bias Avoidance
Bias avoidance behaviour arises when individuals minimize or hide family commitments to achieve career success. Bias avoidance behaviour can be divided into productive types of behaviour that free up more time and energy for a career and unproductive ones types that involve hiding or covering up caregiving commitments. This article compares reports of bias avoidance from chemistry and English faculty in US and Australian colleges and universities…
T ime for S urveys
A Simple Model of Guilt with an Application to Unstaffed Roadside Stands
This paper introduces an analyses of the notion of guilt, the"bad feeling" we get when we harm someone. It is suggested that attempts to avoid the experience of guilt help to explain a variety of economic behaviors, such as those surrounding moral hazard in the workplace, voting, or criminal activities. A formal model of guilt is provided and used to explain the existence and other characteristics of unstaffed roadside stands
Lifetime probabilities of multigenerational caregiving and labor force attachment in Australia
An aging population has increased the prevalence of multigenerational caregiving (MGC), defined as unpaid care for an adult while having a dependent child in the household. Policymakers are simultaneously promoting labor force attachment in response to pop
Working in a 24/7 Economy
In Memoriam
This study uses time diary and telephone survey data from a nonrandom sample of 310 US public, elementary school teachers in 46 schools and four school districts to analyze the sources of time for employed parents to devote to their children in the US. Comparing parent and nonparent teachers for a 24-hour working day reveals that American parents spend significantly less time on work, personal time, passive leisure, and exercise, and significantl…
The Willingness-to-Pay for Work/Family Policies
Recent evidence suggests that employers and employees may benefit from work/family policies and that even non-beneficiaries may support such policies. The authors posit that these policies generate not only "use" values (values for those who rely on them), but also, based on a particular norm of social justice, "need" values (values received by all individuals, regardless of expectations of direct benefit). Combining the median voter model with t…
Is Worker Behaviour Consistent With Efficiency Wages
A model of worker behavior under efficiency wages is presented and the fundamental hypotheses identified. Using survey data from the United States, a cross-sectional testing equation is estimated. While not uniformly successful, the fundamental results emerge as a strong positive partial correlation between reported effort and the wage rate of the employee and between that same effort measure and degree of monitoring. These results, together with…
Managing Human Resources
Combining what economists know about productivity with the findings of organization theorists about worker motivation, the author describes a strategy to improve the quality of work life, with major benefits for both employers and employees
Capitalism and Efficiency
The paper reviews recent theoretical and empirical work by neo-Marxists suggesting that capitalist firms are inefficient, either technically or by Pareto criteria. The paper examines potential inefficiencies due to the division of labor, unemployment, labor segmentation/fragmentation, and bureaucracy/supervision. It is argued that technical inefficiency claims are incapable of being validated. While Pareto efficiency arguments may be warranted, p…
Shifting Gears, Changing Labor Relations in the U.S. Automobile Industry
Tournaments, Piece Rates, and the Shape of the Payoff Function
The Microeconomic Issues in Labour Economics
Workgroups, Efficiency Wages and Work Effort
(1992). Workgroups, Efficiency Wages and Work Effort. Journal of Post Keynesian Economics: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 497-521.
Is Worker Behaviour Consistent With Efficiency Wages
A model of worker behavior under efficiency wages is presented and the fundamental hypotheses identified. Using survey data from the United States, a cross-sectional testing equation is estimated. While not uniformly successful, the fundamental results emerge as a strong positive partial correlation between reported effort and the wage rate of the employee and between that same effort measure and degree of monitoring. These results, together with…
The Determinants of Labor Absence
The authors analyze causes of absence from work using data from a survey distributed in 1988 to workers in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. The results indicate that workgroup cohesion (the degree to which employees work together closely and harmoniously) was associated with low levels of absence if job satisfaction was high, but with high levels of absence if job satisfaction was low. Some employee characteristics associate…
A Simple Model of Guilt with an Application to Unstaffed Roadside Stands
This paper introduces an analyses of the notion of guilt, the"bad feeling" we get when we harm someone. It is suggested that attempts to avoid the experience of guilt help to explain a variety of economic behaviors, such as those surrounding moral hazard in the workplace, voting, or criminal activities. A formal model of guilt is provided and used to explain the existence and other characteristics of unstaffed roadside stands
T ime for S urveys
A Half-Time Tenure Track Proposal
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJoan Williams Robert Drago is professor of labor studies at the Pennsylvania State University, and is moderator of the work and family Internet newsgroup found on the Web at la.psu.edu/sir/workfam. He is principal investigator on the Faculty & Families Project funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Joan Williams is professor of law at the American University, director of the Gender, Work, and Family Proje…
In Memoriam
This study uses time diary and telephone survey data from a nonrandom sample of 310 US public, elementary school teachers in 46 schools and four school districts to analyze the sources of time for employed parents to devote to their children in the US. Comparing parent and nonparent teachers for a 24-hour working day reveals that American parents spend significantly less time on work, personal time, passive leisure, and exercise, and significantl…
Time on the Job and Time with Their Kids
This study uses time diary and telephone survey data from a nonrandom sample of 310 US public, elementary school teachers in 46 schools and four school districts to analyze the sources of time for employed parents to devote to their children in the US. Comparing parent and nonparent teachers for a 24-hour working day reveals that American parents spend significantly less time on work, personal time, passive leisure, and exercise, and significantl…
The Willingness-to-Pay for Work/Family Policies
Recent evidence suggests that employers and employees may benefit from work/family policies and that even non-beneficiaries may support such policies. The authors posit that these policies generate not only "use" values (values for those who rely on them), but also, based on a particular norm of social justice, "need" values (values received by all individuals, regardless of expectations of direct benefit). Combining the median voter model with t…
Sustaining the New Economy
Preface 1. Our Work in a Changing Economy 2. New Technology and Job Markets 3. The Transformations of Work in the New Global Economy 4. The New Family and Flexible Work 5. Redefining Community in a Flexible Economy 6. Sustaining the New Economy References Index
Mapping the Terrain of Work/Family Journals
An expanding body of published research addresses the relationship between paid employment and commitments to kin, an area referred to as work/family research. Largely relying on an electronic database located at Boston College, the authors analyze the prevalence of relevant articles in various journals and the extent of the likely audience for such articles in those journals in an attempt to obtain a well-defined map. The analysis yields ranking…
Working in a 24/7 Economy
Usual and Preferred Working Hours in Couple Households
Data from a representative survey of adult Australians are analysed for usual and preferred paid working time across couple types. We discover a time divide – many individuals working short hours desire longer hours of paid employment, while many individuals working long hours prefer shorter hours. The latter group is larger, with the average employee desiring fewer hours. For dual-earner couples with children, men average approximately 20 hours …
Female breadwinner families
We develop a typology for understanding couple households where the female is the major earner - what we term female breadwinner households - and test it using data from the first two waves of the HILDA Survey. We distinguish temporary from persistent female breadwinner households and hypothesize, and confirm, that these two groups diverge on demographic, socio-economic status (SES), labour market and family commitment characteristics. Among the …
The Avoidance of Bias Against Caregiving
The authors analyze bias avoidance behaviors, whereby employees respond to biases against caregiving in the workplace by strategically minimizing or hiding family commitments. They divide bias avoidance behaviors into productive types that improve work performance and unproductive types that are inefficient. Original survey data from 4,188 chemistry and English faculty in 507 U.S. colleges and universities suggest both types of bias avoidance are…
Working Time Mismatch and Subjective Well‐being
This study uses nationally representative panel survey data for Australia to identify the role played by mismatches between hours actually worked and working time preferences in contributing to reported levels of job and life satisfaction. Three main conclusions emerge. First, it is not the number of hours worked that matters for subjective well‐being, but working time mismatch. Second, overemployment is a more serious problem than is underemploy…
Bias Avoidance
Bias avoidance behaviour arises when individuals minimize or hide family commitments to achieve career success. Bias avoidance behaviour can be divided into productive types of behaviour that free up more time and energy for a career and unproductive ones types that involve hiding or covering up caregiving commitments. This article compares reports of bias avoidance from chemistry and English faculty in US and Australian colleges and universities…
Who Wants and Gets Flexibility? Changing Work Hours Preferences and Life Events
Using panel data for 2001-2005 from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, the authors examine workers' desires for, and achievement of, work hour flexibility. They estimate a dynamic model that controls for preferences in previous years and tests for the effects of life events on both desired employment and desired work hours. Many life events, such as motherhood and retirement, are found to have predictable effec…
Did Australia’s Baby Bonus Increase Fertility Intentions and Births
Wage Differential and Structure
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