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Compliance with the Overtime Pay Provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act
Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 1981
Our paper presents a methodology that can be used to estimate the extent of noncompliance with the overtime pay provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The methodology is applied to data from the May 1978 Current Population Survey and the 1977 Michigan Quality of Employment Survey....
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Compensating Wage Differentials for Mandatory Overtime
Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 1981
Our paper estimates the extent to which employees are compensated for an unfavorable job characteristic, being required to accept mandatory assignment of overtime, by receiving higher straight-time wages. Our estimating equations are derived from a model in which wage rates and the existence of...
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The Expanding Workweek? Understanding Trends in Long Work Hours Among U.S. Men, 1979-2004
Kuhn, Peter - 2005
According to Census and CPS data, the share of employed American men regularly working more than 48 hours per week is higher today than it was 25 years ago. Using CPS data from 1979 to 2006, we show that this increase was greatest among highly educated, highly-paid, and older men, was...
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The Demand for Hours of Labor : Direct Evidence from California
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1997
For many years California has required that most women receive time-and-a-half for hours of work beyond 8 in a given day. In 1980 this daily overtime penalty was extended to men. This change provides a unique opportunity to estimate the impact of an exogenous increase in the relative price of a...
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Bonuses, Overtime, and Employment : Korea vs. Japan
Ito, Takatoshi - 1989
This paper examined the bonus and wage behavior in Korea. We found that both bonuses and wages in Korea respond to economic conditions much more than their counterparts in Japan. This finding may reflect the fact that the Korean labor market is much closer to a spot market rather than a...
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Working Over Time : Dynamic Inconsistency in Real Effort Tasks
Augenblick, Ned - 2013
Experimental tests of dynamically inconsistent time preferences have largely relied on choices over time-dated monetary rewards. Several recent studies have failed to find the standard patterns of time inconsistency. However, such monetary studies contain often discussed confounds. In this...
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Too Many Managers : The Strategic Use of Titles to Avoid Overtime Payments
Cohen, Lauren; Gurun, Umit G.; Ozel, N. Bugra - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We find widespread evidence of firms appearing to avoid paying overtime wages by exploiting a federal law that allows them to do so for employees termed as "managers" and paid a salary above a pre-defined dollar threshold. We show that listings for salaried positions with managerial titles...
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Professional Motivations in the Public Sector : Evidence from Police Officers
Chalfin, Aaron; Gonçalves, Felipe M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study how public sector workers balance their professional motivations with private economic concerns, focusing on police arrests. Arrests made near the end of an officer's shift typically require overtime work, and officers respond by reducing arrest frequency but increasing arrest quality....
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Outward FDI and Parent Exports and Employment : Japan, the United States, and Sweden
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000
Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income level. This relationship is similar to that found for...
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Wage-Setting Institutions as Industrial Policy
Davis, Steven J. - 2000
centralized wage setting on the industry distribution of employment. We examine Sweden's industry distribution from 1960 to 1994 … identify the rise and fall of centralized wage-setting arrangements as a major factor in the evolution of Sweden's industry … accounted for about 40 percent of U.S.-Swedish differences in the industry distribution. The dissolution of Sweden's centralized …
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