Measures for Reduction of Overtime Work

Overtime Work as a Signaling Device

This paper adds to the various reasons for a worker’s supply of overtime hours by focusing on forward-looking labor supply, and provides an explanation for the empirically proven relationship between overtime and positive future outcomes. We suggest an internal signaling model, in which a worker signals his value to the employer by supplying unpaid overtime. The possible benefits from signaling...

The California Overtime Experiment: Labor Demand and the Impact of Overtime Regulation on Hours of Work

In 1998, California changed its regulation of working hours from daily overtime (required overtime for hours above eight per day) to weekly overtime (required overtime for hours above forty per week). We analyze the effects of this change in overtime law on hours of work using a neo-classical model of labor demand and overtime regulation. According to this model, for workers ‘at the kink’ where...

Overtime Work Dual Job Holding and Taxation

Overtime work as a predictor of a major depressive episode.

Data from middle-aged civil servants in the Whitehall II Study suggest that working long hours of overtime may predispose workers to major depressive episodes.

State mandatory overtime regulations and newly licensed nurses' mandatory and voluntary overtime and total work hours.

Nurse overtime has been used to handle normal variations in patient census and to control chronic understaffing. By 2010, 16 states had regulations to limit nurse overtime. We examined mandatory overtime regulations and their association with mandatory and voluntary overtime and total hours worked by newly licensed registered nurses (NLRNs). For this secondary data analysis, we used a panel sur...