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The effect of overtime regulations on employment : there is no evidence that being strict with overtime hours and pay boosts employment - it could even lower it
Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420502
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Working for nothing: personality and time allocation in the UK
Della Giusta, Marina; Jewell, Sarah - 2021
(and the advantage experienced by more conscientious types) focussing in particular on unpaid overtime. We make use of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012802387
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549115
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The effect of overtime regulations on employment : strictly controlling overtime hours and pay does not boost employment - it could even lower it
Oaxaca, Ronald L.; Sagyndykova, Galiya - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252951
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Non-standard employment, working time arrangements, establishment entry and exit
Späth, Jochen - 2013
-standard employment, trust-based working time arrangements and overtime hours in the light of the qualitative changes of employment … uncertainties of young firms. Likewise, trust-based working time arrangements and overtime hours are more an issue in young than in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010211158
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The 2018-2021 working time reform in Korea : a preliminary assessment
Hijzen, Alexander; Thewissen, Stefan - 2020
working more than 52 hours by 5 percentage points or about a fifth of its pre-reform level among employees working overtime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012312281
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Young and flexible : labour contracts in young and incumbent firms
Späth, Jochen - In: International journal of entrepreneurship and small business 29 (2016) 1, pp. 46-65
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022750
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Held captive in the office : an investigation into long working hours among Korean employees
Zhang, Lu; Seo, Jeeyoung - In: The international journal of human resource management 29 (2018) 7, pp. 1231-1256
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011935704
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Uncertainty over working schedules and compensating wage differentials : from the viewpoint of labor management
Morikawa, Masayuki - 2018
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