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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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On their intensive margins, firms in the British engineering industry adjusted to the severe falls in demand during the 1930s Depression by cutting hours of work. This provided an important means of reducing labour input and marginal labour costs, through movements from overtime to short-time...
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market and implicit contracts in the determination of British real wages. Empirical work is carried out separately for males … determining real wages, although we do find some support for contracting effects. Further evidence is provided through the …
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movers, and between-company job movers. Wages of internal movers, they find, were slightly more procyclical, and wages of … external movers considerably more procyclical, than those of stayers. The greater cyclicality of movers' wages is particularly … comprised about 90% of all observations in this large sample of British workers, the procyclicality of their wages was the …
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