arrangements and the compensation for working overtime. At first we describe the spread of flexible working hours arrangements over … part time employees we find a clear preference of paid overtime over all other compensation options. Contrary to our …

frequently. These hypotheses are tested using days of absence and overtime work as effort indicators. The tests yield that …

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 …

time and overtime. In contrast to Hansen and Sargent (1988), the paper models this as a sequential decision. Instead of … changing from one to infinity, with a sequential non-convexity, the aggregate elasticity of labor supply for overtime work is a … workers doing overtime. …

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 …

) average hourly earnings into their straight-time hourly wage and overtime components. Our motivation is based on the idea of … straight-time wage rate, (ii) the "mark-up" needed to achieve an overtime worker?s earnings rate, and (iii) the proportion of … workers working overtime. Using monthly manufacturing data from 1962?1997, cyclicality measures of these components are based …

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 …