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effects of overtime pay regulation on weekly work schedules. After controlling for workweek trends within industries, the … sharp expansions in overtime pay coverage resulting from legislative amendments and Supreme Court decisions produced no … discernible impact on overtime hours. This finding is consistent with a model of labor market equilibrium in which straight …
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effects of overtime pay regulation on weekly work schedules. After controlling for workweek trends within industries, the … sharp expansions in overtime pay coverage resulting from legislative amendments and Supreme Court decisions produced no … discernible impact on overtime hours. This finding is consistent with a model of labor market equilibrium in which straight …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320782
This paper studies the employment and income effects of a federal proposal in 2016 to expand overtime coverage to …
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A model is developed to predict the effects of recently proposed amendments to the FLSA workweek and overtime … provisions. It contrasts allowing compensatory time for overtime pay for private non-exempt employees to “rights to request …
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is to reduce overtime work in order to allow the employment of more people. This paper suggests that such a concept faces … unemployed, namely the unskilled, also exhibit low levels of overtime work. Those who work overtime, namely the skilled, face … reduction in overtime will lead to less production and hence also to a decline in the level of unskilled employment. The paper …
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In 2012, in the midst of a recession, a labour law reform in Portugal allowed firms to reduce the overtime premium paid … to their workers by 50% or more. Until then, overtime premiums were set by law at a relatively high level and could not … be cut unilaterally. We analyse matched employer-employee panel data, including worker-level base and overtime hours and …
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In 2012, a new law allowed firms in Portugal to reduce the overtime premium paid by half. Until then, as in other … countries, premiums were subject to a minimum level. We analyse matched panel data, including worker-level (base and overtime …) hours and pay, to study the effects of the resulting greater flexibility in overtime pay setting. We find that half of the …
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We summarize recent research on the wage and employment effects of minimum wage laws in the U.S. and infer from non-U.S. studies of hours laws the likely effects of unchanging U.S. hours laws. Minimum wages in the U.S. have increasingly become a province of state governments, with the effective...
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tariflich vereinbarter Arbeitszeit und geleistetem Überstundenvolumen zu beobachten, während in Großbritannien eine signifikant … nahe, dass gesetzliche oder tarifvertragliche Maßnahmen zur Reduktion der vereinbarten wöchentlichen Arbeitszeit in beiden …In the 1990s overtime incidence in Great Britain and West Germany is quite similar, while the average amount of hours …
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tariflich vereinbarter Arbeitszeit und geleistetem Überstundenvolumen zu beobachten, während in Großbritannien eine signifikant … nahe, dass gesetzliche oder tarifvertragliche Maßnahmen zur Reduktion der vereinbarten wöchentlichen Arbeitszeit in beiden …In the 1990s overtime incidence in Great Britain and West Germany is quite similar, while the average amount of hours …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260756