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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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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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Raising the overtime premium and reducing the standard workweek : short-run impacts on U.S. manufacturing
Sagyndykova, Galiya; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2019
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 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001635457
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Does the statutory overtime premium discourage long workweeks?
Trejo, Stephen J. - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 56 (2002/03) 3, pp. 530-551
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Overtime working in an unregulated labour market
Bell, David N. F.; Hart, Robert A. - 1999
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 …
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Cognitive performance and labor market outcomes
Lin, Dajun; Lutter, Randall W.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2016
We use information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and supplementary data sources to examine how cognitive performance, measured at approximately the end of secondary schooling, is related to the labor market outcomes of 20 through 50 year olds. Our estimates control...
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Response of Labor Productivity and Employment to Changes in Overtime Hours in US Manufacturing from 1982 to 2004
Golden, Lonnie - 2008
The intensity of use of overtime hours has risen markedly since the early 1990s. Recent research suggests that there … given increase or decrease in hours - measured here as average weekly hours of overtime work - affects the subsequent … to a given shock in average weekly overtime hours. Findings indicate that in recent years, a given increase in overtime …
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Overemployment and Underemployment Mismatches in the US Work Force : The Preference to Exchange Income for Fewer Work Hours
Golden, Lonnie; Gebreselassie, Tesfayi - 2007
Work hours mismatches among the employed are common. About 7 percent prefer fewer than their current work hours even if it means less income, while another 25 percent want more hours and income, virtually the same as in 1985. Overemployment is higher for women, whites, married, parents of young...
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The Effect of Minimum Wages on Wages and Employment : County-Level Estimates for the United States
Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad - 2021
We use county-level data on employment and earnings in the restaurant-and-bar sector to evaluate the impact of minimum wage changes on low-wage labor markets. Our empirical approach is similar to the literature that has used state-level panel data to estimate minimum-wage impacts, with the...
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