This paper offers a contract-based theory to explain the determination of standard hours,overtime hours and overtime … a simple wage-hours contract without overtime and show thatincorporating hours into the contract may itself produce … efficiency gains. We then showhow the introduction of overtime hours, remunerated at premium rates, can furtherimprove contract …

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 …

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 …

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 …

critically dependent on the measurement of wages. Incorporating hourly wage earnings, that include the influence of overtime …

and overtime pay. Through administrative rulemaking, the Secretary of Labor has established two tests through which to …

and overtime pay. Through administrative rulemaking, the Secretary of Labor has established two tests through which to …

and overtime pay. Through administrative rulemaking, the Secretary of Labor has established two tests through which to …

and overtime pay. Through administrative rulemaking, the Secretary of Labor has established two tests through which to …

overtime used by house managers to staff residential programs at a local human services agency. The intervention involved the … use of a novel report, the Financial Report, which listed the weekly amount of overtime over the course of the study and … included a graphic depiction of overtime. The Financial Report was sent each week. Depending on the performance of the managers …