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Returns to Workers and Hours in Finnish Manufacturing

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  • Ilmakunnas, Pekka

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Production functions, where the number of workers, their average standard hours, and average overtime hours appear as separate inputs, are estimated using pooled data from Finnish industries. The results show that the returns to workers are higher than the returns to average hours and both returns are below one. This is in accordance with the assumption usually made in theoretical analyses of the demand for workers and hours. The productivity of overtime hours is slightly higher than that of standard hours. All the output elasticities are, however, fairly close to each other. Diagnostic tests show that there is collinearity between the explanatory variables, but application of several adaptive ridge estimators shows that this has not affected the results much.

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  • Ilmakunnas, Pekka, 1994. "Returns to Workers and Hours in Finnish Manufacturing," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 19(4), pages 533-553.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:empeco:v:19:y:1994:i:4:p:533-53
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    1. Collewet, Marion & Sauermann, Jan, 2017. "Working hours and productivity," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 47(C), pages 96-106.
    2. Petri Böckerman, 2002. "Overtime in Finland," Finnish Economic Papers, Finnish Economic Association, vol. 15(1), pages 36-54, Spring.
    3. Dongyeol Lee & Hyunjoon Lim, 2017. "Multiple Thresholds In The Nexus Between Working Hours And Productivity," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, vol. 35(4), pages 716-734, October.
    4. Dongyeol Lee & Hyunjoon Lim, 2014. "Nonlinearity in Nexus between Working Hours and Productivity," Working Papers 2014-24, Economic Research Institute, Bank of Korea.

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