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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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In recent years the question of overtime work has become increasingly relevant as part of the wider issue of the … reduction in the working day. A direct relation between policies aiming at reducing working hours, and increases in overtime … investigate this issue using microdata by the Bank of Italy. In Italy, the incidence of overtime work among male dependent workers …
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Significant numbers of employees work more hours in the workplace than their contract stipulates. Such overtime work … can either be paid or unpaid. This research considers overtime working in Germany and the UK and shows that the … quantitative significance of both paid and unpaid overtime is greater in the UK. Empirical work is based on the UK Labour Force …
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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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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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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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We estimate the earnings losses of a cohort of workers displaced during the Great Recession and decompose those long-term losses into components attributable to fewer work hours and to reduced hourly wage rates. We also examine the extent to which the reduced earnings, work hours, and wages of...
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We estimate the earnings losses of a cohort of workers displaced during the Great Recession and decompose those long-term losses into components attributable to fewer work hours and to reduced hourly wage rates. We also examine the extent to which the reduced earnings, work hours, and wages of...
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-standard employment, trust-based working time arrangements and overtime hours in the light of the qualitative changes of employment … uncertainties of young firms. Likewise, trust-based working time arrangements and overtime hours are more an issue in young than in …
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In this paper, we undertake an evaluation of the laws governing wages in India, identify their shortcomings and offer suggestions for improvement. In doing so, we analyze the provisions in the relevant ILO Conventions and look at the laws and practice in selected developed and emerging...
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