firms differs between firms which offer overtime and those which do not. For a panel of German plants (2001-2006), we … with theory, overtime plants showed a significant positive employment response, whilst for standard-time plants there is no …

change was mainly determined by a redistribution of fringe benefits and overtime payments. We discuss three possible sources …

to a reallocation of working hours, with more employees shifting from working fulltime to working overtime within the new … overtime hours worked by their employees, rather than within households to compensate for any income effects. Overall, our …

This paper offers a contract-based theory to explain the determination of standard hours, overtime hours and overtime … explore a simple wage-hours contract without overtime and show that incorporating hours into the contract may itself produce … efficiency gains. We then show how the introduction of overtime hours, remunerated at premium rates, can further improve contract …

In 2012, in the midst of a recession, a labour law reform in Portugal allowed firms to reduce the overtime premium paid … to their workers by 50% or more. Until then, overtime premiums were set by law at a relatively high level and could not … be cut unilaterally. We analyse matched employer-employee panel data, including worker-level base and overtime hours and …

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 …

The share of overtime hours within total hours worked in Britain has declined from 4.8% to 2.9% between 1999 and 2018 … and females together with overtime pay effects that include the implications for the gender pay gap. We test for economic … overtime working and the average weekly hours of overtime workers. This investigation features collective bargaining coverage …

The paper investigates the effects of nursing overtime on nosocomial infections and medical accidents in a neonatal … method to estimate the models. Our results show unequivocally that both health outcomes are affected by nursing overtime …