Overtime Work and Overtime Compensation in Germany

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 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...

Overtime Work Dual Job Holding and Taxation

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...

Regular overtime and cardiovascular functions.

It was concluded that there was sufficient evidence about a possible link between long working hours particularly exceeding 50 a week and the risk of significant health outcomes, including cardiovascular disease from literature review by Spurgeon et al.. This study was conducted to find out the single effect of regular overtime work on the cardiovascular functions through objective biological i...