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In 2012, in the midst of a recession, a labour law reform in Portugal allowed firms to reduce the overtime premium paid … firms using overtime in 2011 did reduce their overtime premiums in a manner consistent with the reform, in particular those … overtime usage, employment and sales following the reform. Overall, our results highlight the important but not exclusive role …
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intention of family-friendliness and alleviating overemployment — unless it were accompanied by offsetting policies that prevent …
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In 2012, in the midst of a recession, a labour law reform in Portugal allowed firms to reduce the overtime premium paid … firms using overtime in 2011 did reduce their overtime premiums in a manner consistent with the reform, in particular those … overtime usage, employment and sales following the reform. Overall, our results highlight the important but not exclusive role …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559633
firms using overtime in 2011 did reduce their overtime premiums consistently with the reform, in particular firms making … and sales following the reform. Our results also highlight the important but not exclusive role of legal restrictions on …
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. Using longitudinal data from the UK Labour Force Survey, the paper investigates the effects of overemployment and … underemployment on transitions from employment and self-employment into other labour market states. It confirms that overemployment is …
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Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this back-of-the-envelope calculation overestimates the effect of loosening hours constraints, because even in a very flexible labor market there will exist hours restrictions for...
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Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this back-of-the-envelope calculation overestimates the effect of loosening hours constraints, because even in a very exible labor market there will exist hours restrictions for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014089251
In 2015, Germany introduced a statutory hourly minimum wage that was not only universally binding but also set at a relatively high level. We discuss the short-run effects of this new minimum wage on a wide set of socio-economic outcomes, such as employment and working hours, earnings and wage...
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In 2015, Germany introduced a statutory hourly minimum wage that was not only universally binding but also set at a relatively high level. We discuss the short-run effects of this new minimum wage on a wide set of socio-economic outcomes, such as employment and working hours, earnings and wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011961942
This paper provides a first assessment of the causal impact of the 2018-2021 reform in Korea meant to combat its long … working-hour culture. The reform consists of lowering the statutory limit on total weekly working hours from 68 to 52. We … apply a difference-in-difference approach in which we take advantage of the stepwise implementation of the reform by firm …
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