Does the Statutory Overtime Premium Discourage Long Workweeks?

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Does the Statutory Overtime Premium Discourage Long Workweeks?

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Trejo, Stephen () (Department of Economics, University of Texas and IZA, Bonn)

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Stephen J. Trejo

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Using a pooled data set consisting of 20 annual observations on each of eleven major industry groups, I estimate the effects of overtime pay regulation on weekly work schedules. After controlling for workweek trends within industries, the sharp expansions in overtime pay coverage resulting from legislative amendments and Supreme Court decisions produced no discernible impact on overtime hours. This finding is consistent with a model of labor market equilibrium in which straight-time hourly wages adjust to neutralize the statutory overtime premium.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 373.

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Date of creation: Oct 2001
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- Stephen J. Trejo, 2003. "Does the statutory overtime premium discourage long workweeks?," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, ILR Review, ILR School, Cornell University, vol. 56(3), pages 530-551, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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- Stephen Trejo, 1997. "Does the Statutory Overtime Premium Discourage Long Workweeks?," University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series wp21-95R, Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara. [Downloadable!]
- Stephen J. Trejo, . "Does the Statuatory Overtime Premium Discourage Long Workweeks?," University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series 21-95, Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara. [Downloadable!]
- Trejo, S.J., 1992. "Does the Stratutory Overtime Premium Discourage Long Workweek?," University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series 12-92, Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara.

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- Daniel S. Hamermesh & Stephen J. Trejo, . "The Demand for Hours of Labor: Direct Evidence from California," University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series 12-98, Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara.
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