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 …Regulation of standard workweek hours and overtime hours and pay can protect workers who might otherwise be required to …

examined, how wages respond, whether employees collected overtime pay before the change, and the productivity of hours worked … standard work hours during the 1980s and 1990s, attempting to boost employment by splitting up a fixed number of worker … reduce their labor costs in the early 2000s. The employment effect of increased standard hours depends on the time horizon …

establishments. Total earnings decrease by 2% due to reduced overtime pay, while hourly wages remain unchanged. Notably, the reform …, using payroll and survey data in a difference-in-difference design. We find that the reform's introduction of an overtime … cap reduces average monthly overtime hours by 5 hours (-25%) and compresses the distribution of overtime within …

' profits, the number of jobs, and the hours each person works. Overtime pay, hiring subsidies, the minimum wage, and payroll … both employment and hours, in individual companies as well as the overall economy. …

overtime usage, employment and sales following the reform. Overall, our results highlight the important but not exclusive role …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 …