Arbeitspapier

The Productivity of Working Hours

Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output and their working hours. The relationship is nonlinear: below an hours threshold, output is proportional to hours; above a threshold, output rises at a decreasing rate as hours increase. Implications of these results for the estimation of labor supply functions are taken up. The findings also link up with current research on the effects of long working hours on accidents and injuries.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 8129

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: 1913-
Thema
working hours
output
productivity
women workers

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Pencavel, John H.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2014

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Pencavel, John H.
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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