The effect of overtime regulations on employment

Artikel

Regulation of standard workweek hours and overtime hours and pay can protect workers who might otherwise be required to work more than they would like to at the going rate. By discouraging the use of overtime, such regulation can increase the standard hourly wage of some workers and encourage work sharing that increases employment, with particular advantages for 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 workers who work overtime or on weekly overtime hours per worker.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: IZA World of Labor ; ISSN: 2054-9571 ; Year: 2014 ; Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Public Policy ; Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy ; Labor Standards: Public Policy
• Subject: overtime ; wages ; labor demand ; employment

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Oaxaca, Ronald L.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2014

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.15185/izawol.89
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/125312
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET