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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/10001635457
the effects of overtime pay regulation on weekly work schedules. In an analysis that controls for workweek trends within … industries, the sharp expansions in overtime pay coverage resulting from legislative amendments and Supreme Court decisions are … found to have had no discernible impact on overtime hours. This finding is consistent with a model of labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014086896
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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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, 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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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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Regulation of standard workweek hours and overtime hours and pay can protect workers who might otherwise be required to … work more than they would like to at the going rate. By discouraging the use of overtime, such regulation can increase the … female workers. However, regulation of overtime raises employment costs, setting in motion economic forces that can limit …
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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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