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Does the Statutory Overtime Premium Discourage Long Workweeks?
Trejo, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Overtime Working in an Unregulated Labour Market
Bell, David N. F.; Hart, Robert A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Long-Term Effects of Unpaid Overtime: Evidence for West Germany
Pannenberg, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
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 … effects of unpaid overtime work. Our results point to the importance of investment in current working hours beyond the …
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Overtime Work, Overtime Compensation and the Distribution of Economic Well-Being Evidence for the West Germany and Great Britain
Pannenberg, Markus; Wagner, Gert G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Using panel data for West Germany and Great Britain, we show that there are striking differences in overtime work and … overtime compensation in the two countries in the 1990s. Our estimates reveal that the observed overtime patterns affect both … performance-related pay and unpaid overtime in Great Britain is an important factor in explaining the observed differences. With …
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Do Employees Profit from Profit Sharing? Evidence from Canadian Panel Data
Long, Richard J.; Fang, Tony - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using panel data from a large sample of Canadian establishments, this paper examines whether employee earnings increase, decrease, or do not change in the period subsequent to adoption of profit sharing, relative to establishments that do not adopt profit sharing. Our research contributes to...
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The Consequences of Increased Enforcement of Legal Minimum Wages in a Developing Country: An Evaluation of the Impact of the Campaña Nacional de Salarios Mínimos in Costa Rica
Gindling, T. H.; Mossaad, Nadwa; Trejos, Juan Diego - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In August 2010 the Costa Rican government implemented a comprehensive program to increase compliance with legal minimum wages, the Campaign for Minimum Wages. To evaluate the impact of the Campaign, we use a regression discontinuity approach, which compares what happened to workers who before...
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Temporary Jobs, Employ Protection and Labor Market Performance
Cahuc, Pierre; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Many European labor markets are characterized by heavy employment protection taxes and the widespread use of fixed-duration contracts. The simultaneous use of these two policy instruments seems somewhat contradictory since the former primarily aims at limiting job destruction whereas the latter...
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Do Earnings Subsidies Affect Job Choice?
Connolly, Helen; Gottschalk, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
It is widely acknowledged that tax and transfer policies can affect employment. This paper explores a different potential impact of transfer policy by asking whether subsidies also affect job duration and wage growth. We provide an analytical framework that identifies causal links between...
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Unemployment Invariance
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis," according to which the behavior of the labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and the labor force. Using Solow growth and endogenous growth...
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The Effect of Minimum Wages on Immigrants’ Employment and Earnings
Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in the U.S. Minimum wage increases might have larger effects among low-skilled immigrants than among natives because, on average, immigrants earn less than natives due to lower...
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