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Does the statutory overtime premium discourage long workweeks?
Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001
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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Does the statutory overtime premium discourage long workweeks?
Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001
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
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Does the Statutory Overtime Premium Discourage Long Workweeks?
Trejo, Stephen J. - 2021
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
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Does the Statutory Overtime Premium Discourage Long Workweeks?
Trejo, Stephen J. - 2006
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
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Can overtime premium flexibility promote employment? : firm- and worker-level evidence from a labour law reform
Martins, Pedro S. - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532547
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118993
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Wages and hours laws : what do we know? What can be done?
Brown, Charles C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2019
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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Does the statutory overtime premium discourage long workweeks?
Trejo, Stephen J. - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 56 (2002/03) 3, pp. 530-551
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Can Overtime Premium Flexibility Promote Employment? Firm- and Worker-Level Evidence from a Labour Law Reform
Martins, Pedro S. - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983015
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Labour regulations in India : rationalising the laws governing wages
Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh K. - 2017
In this paper, we undertake an evaluation of the laws governing wages in India, identify their shortcomings and offer suggestions for improvement. In doing so, we analyze the provisions in the relevant ILO Conventions and look at the laws and practice in selected developed and emerging...
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