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Does the Statutory Overtime Premium Discourage Long Workweeks?

Trejo, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Overtime Working in an Unregulated Labour Market

Bell, David N. F.; Hart, Robert A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

overtime hours and average premium pay equations. Among other issues, four broad questions are of central importance. (a) What … are the impacts of straight-time pay and hours on overtime pay and hours? (b) Is premium pay positively related to the … length of weekly overtime? (c) What is the influence of collective bargaining coverage on overtime pay and hours? (d) Does …

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Long-Term Effects of Unpaid Overtime: Evidence for West Germany

Pannenberg, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Why do people work unpaid overtime? We show that remarkable long-term labor earnings gains are associated with unpaid … overtime in West Germany. A descriptive analysis suggests that over a 10-year period workers with unpaid overtime experience on … effects of unpaid overtime work. Our results point to the importance of investment in current working hours beyond the …

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Overtime Work, Overtime Compensation and the Distribution of Economic Well-Being Evidence for the West Germany and Great Britain

Pannenberg, Markus; Wagner, Gert G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

Using panel data for West Germany and Great Britain, we show that there are striking differences in overtime work and … overtime compensation in the two countries in the 1990s. Our estimates reveal that the observed overtime patterns affect both … performance-related pay and unpaid overtime in Great Britain is an important factor in explaining the observed differences. With …

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Who Benefits from Pension Enhancements?

Koedel, Cory; Ni, Shawn; Podgursky, Michael - Economics Department, University of Missouri - 2012

During the late 1990s public pension funds across the United States accrued large actuarial surpluses. The seemingly flush conditions of the pension funds led legislators in most states to substantially improve retirement benefits for public workers, including teachers. In this study we examine...

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The Consequences of Increased Enforcement of Legal Minimum Wages in a Developing Country: An Evaluation of the Impact of the Campaña Nacional de Salarios Mínimos in Costa Rica

Gindling, T. H.; Mossaad, Nadwa; Trejos, Juan Diego - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In August 2010 the Costa Rican government implemented a comprehensive program to increase compliance with legal minimum wages, the Campaign for Minimum Wages. To evaluate the impact of the Campaign, we use a regression discontinuity approach, which compares what happened to workers who before...

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The Demand for Labor in the Public Sector

Ashenfelter, Orley; Ehrenberg, Ronald - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 1973

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Reduction of Working Time in Austria. A Mixed Methods Study Relating a New Work Time Policy to Employee Preferences

Gerold, Stefanie; Nocker, Matthias - WWWforEurope - 2015

This mixed-methods study examines factors determining employees‘ desire to reduce worktime. The results of a binary logit regression model, based on data from the Austrian Microcencus 2012, suggest that employees who prefer shorter weekly working hours are older, higher educated and work...

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Mandated Benefits, Welfare, and Heterogeneous Firms.

Addison, J.T.; Barrett, C.R.; Siebert, W.S. - Department of Economics, University of Birmingham - 1995

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Evasion costs and the theory Of conscription

Warner, John; Negrusa, Sebastian - In: Defence and Peace Economics 16 (2005) 2, pp. 83-100

Many countries of Europe are moving from conscripted to volunteer military forces. This paper examines the current status of those conversions and interprets them in light of an economic model of the military manpower procurement system choice developed in Warner and Asch (1996). The theoretical...

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