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.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 8129
- Classification
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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-
- Subject
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working hours
output
productivity
women workers
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Pencavel, John H.
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2014
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Pencavel, John H.
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2014
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