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Working Time as an Investment?: The Effects of Unpaid Overtime on Wages, Promotions, and Layoffs
Anger, Silke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
as higher future wages and probabilities of promotion or job retention, which might help to explain why an increasing … whether working a higher number of unpaid extra hours involves a higher probability of promotion and excess earnings growth …, and a lower probability of layoff in subsequent years. The pooled, random effects, and fixed effects logit estimates …
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Overtime Work as a Signaling Device
Anger, Silke - In: Scottish Journal of Political Economy 55 (2008) 2, pp. 167-189
This paper provides an explanation for the empirically proven relationship between overtime and future benefits. We suggest an internal signaling model, in which a worker signals his value to the employer by supplying unpaid overtime. In our empirical analysis, we examine whether overtime has in...
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Paid and Unpaid Overtime Working in Germany and the UK
Hübler, Olaf; Hart, Robert A.; Bell, David N.F.; … - 2000
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271760
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Paid and unpaid overtime working in Germany and the UK
Bell, David N. F.; Hart, Robert A.; Hübler, Olaf; … - 2000
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325986
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Unpaid overtime in Germany : differences between East and West
Anger, Silke - 2003
Although the standard work week is longer in East than in West Germany, there is a higher incidence and average amount of unpaid overtime worked in the new states. We try to explain the striking differences in unpaid overtime by analyzing the labor supply side. We focus on the investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296477
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Unpaid Overtime in Germany: Differences between East and West
Anger, Silke - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch 125 (2005) 1, pp. 17-27
Although the standard work week is longer in East than in West Germany, there is a higher incidence and average amount of unpaid overtime worked in the new states. We try to explain the striking differences in unpaid overtime by analyzing the labor supply side. We focus on the investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311118
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Severance pay mandates: Firing costs, hiring costs, and firm avoidance behaviors
Parsons, Donald O. - 2011
The potentially adverse labor market effects of severance pay mandates are a continuing source of policy concern. In a seminal study, Lazear (1990) found that contract avoidance of severance pay firing costs was theoretically simple - a bonding scheme would do - but that empirically the labor...
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Insuring displaced workers : human capital losses and severance pay design
Feng, Shuaizhang (contributor);  … - 2006
Displaced workers, especially long tenured workers, face large human capital losses. Private firms frequently offer insurance against this threat in the form of severance pay -- scheduled benefits linked in expectation to the worker's human capital loss. We explore this linkage, first reviewing...
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The firing cost implications of alternative severance pay designs
Parsons, Donald O. - 2010
layoff decisions. The firing cost implications of insurance plan are sensitive to the types of job separations that qualify a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003968599
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Severance pay mandates : firing costs, hiring costs, and firm avoidance behaviors
Parsons, Donald O. - 2011
; layoff ; employment ; insurance ; savings ; moral hazard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009311585