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- Bauer, Thomas K. & Zimmermann, Klaus F. (1999): Overtime Work and Overtime Compensation in Germany
One policy proposal is to reduce overtime work in order to allow the employment of more people. ... Using Germany as a case study, it is shown that the group of workers with the highest risks of becoming unemployed, namely the unskilled, also exhibit low levels of overtime work. Those who work overtime, namely the skilled, face excess demand on the labour market. Since skilled and unskilled workers are largely complements in production, a general reduction in overtime will lead to less production and hence also to a decline in the level of unskilled employment. ... It is also shown that paid overtime work has lost relative importance over time.
RePEc:iza:izadps:dp48 Save to MyIDEAS - Bell, David N.F. & Hart, Robert A. (2019): The Decline of Overtime Working in Britain
The share of overtime hours within total hours worked in Britain has declined from 4.8% to 2.9% between 1999 and 2018. ... We investigate this decline focussing on full-time and part-time males and females together with overtime pay effects that include the implications for the gender pay gap. We test for economic, structural and cyclical influences via a two-part regression model that allows us to differentiate between the incidence of overtime working and the average weekly hours of overtime workers.
RePEc:iza:izadps:dp12651 Save to MyIDEAS - Ronald L. Oaxaca & Galiya Sagyndykova (2020): The effect of overtime regulations on employment
Regulation of standard workweek hours and overtime hours and pay can protect workers who might otherwise be required to work more than they would like to at the going rate. By discouraging the use of overtime, such regulation can increase the standard hourly wage of some workers and encourage work sharing that increases employment, with particular advantages for female workers. However, regulation of overtime raises employment costs, setting in motion economic forces that can limit, neutralize, or even reduce employment. And increasing the coverage of overtime pay regulations has little effect on the share of workers who work overtime or on weekly overtime hours per worker.
RePEc:iza:izawol:journl:2020:n:89 Save to MyIDEAS - Ronald L. Oaxaca (2014): The effect of overtime regulations on employment
Regulation of standard workweek hours and overtime hours and pay can protect workers who might otherwise be required to work more than they would like to at the going rate. By discouraging the use of overtime, such regulation can increase the standard hourly wage of some workers and encourage work sharing that increases employment, with particular advantages for female workers. However, regulation of overtime raises employment costs, setting in motion economic forces that can limit, neutralize, or even reduce employment. And increasing the coverage of overtime pay regulations has little effect on the share of workers who work overtime or on weekly overtime hours per worker.
RePEc:iza:izawol:journl:y:2014:n:89 Save to MyIDEAS - Markus Pannenberg (2002): Long-Term Effects of Unpaid Overtime
Why do people work unpaid overtime? We show that remarkable long-term labor earnings gains are associated with unpaid overtime in West Germany. A descriptive analysis suggests that over a 10-year period workers with unpaid overtime experience on average at least a 10 percentage points higher increase in real labor earnings than their co-workers. ... Furthermore, we find evidence for gender specific differences with respect to the effects of cumulative average unpaid overtime work.
RePEc:diw:diwwpp:dp293 Save to MyIDEAS - Daniel Khorsandi & Brian H. Kleiner (2001): Administrative exemptions in paying overtime
Keywords: Overtime, Legislation, USA, Working conditions
RePEc:eme:mlppss:03090550110770354 Save to MyIDEAS - Henry Soetanto & Brian H. Kleiner (2001): Californian minimum wage and overtime
Keywords: Minimum wage, USA, Legislation, Overtime
RePEc:eme:mlppss:03090550110770372 Save to MyIDEAS - Jay Bhattacharya & Thomas DeLeire & Thomas MaCurdy (2000): The California Overtime Experiment: Labor Demand and the Impact of Overtime Regulation on Hours of Work
In 1998, California changed its regulation of working hours from daily overtime (required overtime for hours above eight per day) to weekly overtime (required overtime for hours above forty per week). We analyze the effects of this change in overtime law on hours of work using a neoclassical model of labor demand and overtime regulation. According to this model, relaxing overtime regulation should increase hours per worker in firms that choose hours ‘at the kink’ where overtime regulation is binding while it should decrease hours per worker in firms that already choose overtime. An empirical analysis of the effect of the 1998 change in California’s overtime rules from daily to weekly overtime yields negligible effects on average. ... Relative to weekly overtime, daily overtime is regressive, raising the number of work hours of high-wage workers at the cost of reduced work hours for low-wage workers.
RePEc:har:wpaper:0024 Save to MyIDEAS - Meland, Frode (2002): Overtime pay premiums in a unionized oligopoly
This paper studies how a high overtime wage rate and a low labor stock may be used as commitment devices by price-setting firms. We show that high overtime pay premiums may both decrease and increase equilibrium employment. If an employment-oriented union or the firm itself sets the overtime wage, then the overtime wage premium will be high enough to ensure that no overtime is used in equilibrium. If the overtime wage is set by a sufficiently wage-oriented union, however, overtime will be used in equilibrium, and employment is substantially lower. ... We show that this can be done by setting a minimum overtime pay premium.
RePEc:hhs:bergec:2002_022 Save to MyIDEAS - Anger, Silke (2008): Overtime Work as a Signaling Device
This paper provides an explanation for the empirically proven relationship between overtime and future benefits. We suggest an internal signaling model, in which a worker signals his value to the employer by supplying unpaid overtime. In our empirical analysis, we examine whether overtime has in fact a signaling component. Variations in collectively bargained hours between industries are exploited, as they imply different overtime thresholds for workers with the same number of actual hours. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study for the years 1993–2004, a positive signaling value of unpaid overtime is found for West German workers.
RePEc:zbw:espost:68492 Save to MyIDEAS