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Labour standards : [prepared for the Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, edited by Klaus f. Zimmermann]

Gunderson, Morley - 2021 - (Revised June 2021)

This chapter deals with the question of whether labour standards are less relevant or more relevant for the new world of work which is vastly different from the old world of work when most labour standards were first established. The various rationales for labour standards are first outlined....

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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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The limitations of overtime limits to reduce long working hours : evidence from the 2018-2021 working time reform in Korea

Carcillo, Stéphane; Hijzen, Alexander; Thewissen, Stefan - 2023

to a reallocation of working hours, with more employees shifting from working fulltime to working overtime within the new … overtime hours worked by their employees, rather than within households to compensate for any income effects. Overall, our …

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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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