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Labour standards : [prepared for the Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, edited by Klaus f. Zimmermann]

Gunderson, Morley - 2021 - (Revised June 2021)

This chapter deals with the question of whether labour standards are less relevant or more relevant for the new world of work which is vastly different from the old world of work when most labour standards were first established. The various rationales for labour standards are first outlined....

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Economic effects of overtime premium flexibility : firm- and worker-level evidence from a law reform

Martins, Pedro S. - 2017

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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Constrained vs unconstrained labor supply : the economics of dual job holding

Choe, Chung; Oaxaca, Ronald L.; Renna, Francesco - 2017

This paper develops a unified model of dual and unitary job holding based on a Stone-Geary utility function. The model incorporates both constrained and unconstrained labor supply. Panel data methods are adapted to accommodate unobserved heterogeneity and multinomial selection into 6 mutually...

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