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

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 …