This article provides a first assessment of the causal impact 2018–2021 reform in Korea meant to combat its long working-hour culture. The consists lowering statutory limit on total weekly working hours from 68 52. We apply difference-in-difference approach which we take advantage stepwise implementation by firm size using individual-level data. present three main findings. First, introduction ...

Using a pooled data set consisting of 20 annual observations on each of eleven major industry groups, I estimate the effects of overtime pay regulation on weekly work schedules. After controlling for workweek trends within industries, the sharp expansions in overtime pay coverage resulting from legislative amendments and Supreme Court decisions produced no discernible impact on overtime hours. ...

BACKGROUND In South Africa, nurses are the largest category of the health care providers. Their optimal performance is critical for the successful implementation of impending health sector reforms. OBJECTIVE This paper examines the occurrence of agency nursing, moonlighting, and overtime among nurses in South Africa, and the factors influencing moonlighting. DESIGN This cross-sectional surv...

This paper addresses the issue if and to what extent young firms differ from incumbents regarding the use of non-standard employment, trust-based working time arrangements and overtime hours in the light of the qualitative changes of employment structures that are taking place in industrialized countries, such as rising shares of non-standard employment and borders between work and private life...

Excerpt] This paper presents empirical estimates of the intra-industry cross-section relationship between annual overtime hours per man and the ratio of these quasi-fixed costs to the overtime wage rate. Estimates are also made of the impact of a change in the overtime premium on employment and hours; these estimates have implications for policymakers concerned with the wisdom of increasing the...

Background: Nurses are one of the professions that prone to violence. In many cases, violence against nurses often goes undetected because they not reported and do have a compliant institution. Violence in workplace can negatively affect performance service quality. One aspect related incidence is excessive number working hours (Overtime). Overtime thought caused fatigue reduced concentration, ...

conclusions based on the study results, making plans to promote mental aspect of nurses, focusing on family foundations like marriage, reducing and distributing working hours, and decreasing night shifts hours of nurses could reduce their depression and improve their quality of life. results according to the final model yielded from path analysis, the most important factors contributing to depr...

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...