Around 40% of the male workforce regularly works 8 to 9 hours a week of paid overtime. This paper investigates the … determinants of overtime hours in Britain over the period 1975-1999. For this purpose a panel data Tobit model is estimated using … in the job-mix across the economy, from high to low overtime jobs rather than within-job changes in the use of overtime …

We develop a rationale for the payment by firms of a wage premium on marginal, or overtime, weekly hours. We examine …

overtime hours and average premium pay equations. Among other issues, four broad questions are of central importance. (a) What … are the impacts of straight-time pay and hours on overtime pay and hours? (b) Is premium pay positively related to the … length of weekly overtime? (c) What is the influence of collective bargaining coverage on overtime pay and hours? (d) Does …

) average hourly earnings into their straight-time hourly wage and overtime components. Our motivation is based on the idea of … straight-time wage rate, (ii) the 'mark-up' needed to achieve an overtime worker's earnings rate, and (iii) the proportion of … workers working overtime. Using monthly manufacturing data from 1962 -1997, cyclicality measures of these components are based …

Significant numbers of employees work more hours in the workplace than their contract stipulates. Such overtime work … can either be paid or unpaid. This research considers overtime working in Germany and the UK and shows that the … quantitative significance of both paid and unpaid overtime is greater in the UK. Empirical work is based on the UK Labour Force …

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 …

Using panel data for West Germany and Great Britain, we show that there are striking differences in overtime work and … overtime compensation in the two countries in the 1990s. Our estimates reveal that the observed overtime patterns affect both … performance-related pay and unpaid overtime in Great Britain is an important factor in explaining the observed differences. With …

Traditionally, labour supply data do not include much information on hours and wages in secondary job or overtime work …. In this paper, we estimate labour supply models based on survey information on hours and wages in overtime work and … elasticities are highly sensitive to the inclusion of information on overtime work and secondary job and to the handling of fixed …