Arbeitspapier

Overtime Working and Contract Efficiency

We present a wage-hours contract designed to minimize costly job turnover given investments in on the job training combined with firm and worker information asymmetries. It may be optimal for the parties to work 'long hours' remunerated at premium rates for guaranteed overtime hours. Based on British plant and machine operatives, we test three predictions. First, trained workers with longer job tenure are more likely to work overtime. Second, hourly overtime pay exceeds the value of marginal product while the basic hourly wage is less than the value of marginal product. Third, the basic hourly wage is negatively related to the overtime premium.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 7560

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Labor Contracts
Compensation Packages; Payment Methods
Thema
paid overtime
wage-hours contract
plant and machine operatives

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Hart, Robert A.
Ma, Yue
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2013

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Hart, Robert A.
  • Ma, Yue
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2013

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