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Wage-Hours Contracts, Overtime Working and Premium Pay

Hart, Robert A.; Ma, Yue - 2008

This paper offers a contract-based theory to explain the determination of standard hours,overtime hours and overtime premium pay. We expand on the wage contract literaturethat emphasises the role of firm-specific human capital and that explores problems ofcontract efficiency in the face of...

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Employment versus wage adjustment and the U.S. dollar

Campa, Jose Manuel; Goldberg, Linda S. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 1998

Using two decades of annual data, we explore the links between real exchange rates and employment, wages and overtime … not have large effects on numbers of jobs or on hours worked. More substantial effects are picked up in industry wages …, especially for industries characterized by low price-over-cost markup ratios, and in overtime wages and overtime employment. The …

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Work schedules, wages, and employment in a general equilibrium model with team production

Fitzgerald, Terry J. - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland - 1996

An analysis of working hours, wages, and employment when production requires coordinating the work schedules of …

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Trends in U.S. hours and the labor wedge

Cociuba, Simona E.; Ueberfeldt, Alexander - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas - 2010

From 1980 until 2007, U.S. average hours worked increased by thirteen percent, due to a large increase in female hours. At the same time, the U.S. labor wedge, measured as the discrepancy between a representative household's marginal rate of substitution between consumption and leisure and the...

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The effect of an employer health insurance mandate on health insurance coverage and the demand for labor: evidence from Hawaii

Buchmueller, Thomas C.; DiNardo, John; Valletta, Robert G. - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2009

voluntary market (primarily those with lower skills). We also find that relative wages fell in Hawaii over time, but the …

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The sources of wage growth in a developing country

Marinescu, Ioana E.; Triyana, Margaret - 2015

What are the sources of wage growth in developing countries? In the US, general labor market experience is the key source of wage growth, with job seniority playing a smaller role. By contrast, in Indonesia, the 10-year return to seniority is 24 to 29%, which is higher than the return to...

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