League (NFL), National Basketball Association (NBA), National Hockey League (NHL), and Major League Baseball (MLB)-are now …

) 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 …

overtime and non-overtime employment. Policy simulations are conducted to examine the short-run effects on the monthly growth … rates for employment, labor earnings, capital usage, and the workweek from either a) raising the overtime premium to double …-wide employment, earnings, and non-labor input usage. The growth rate of the workweek is virtually unaffected by raising the overtime …

) 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 …

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 …