@techreport{Pannenberg2001Overtime,
abstract = {Using panel data for West Germany and Great Britain, we show that there are striking
differences in overtime work and overtime compensation in the two countries in the 1990s.
Our estimates reveal that the observed overtime patterns affect both the evolution of the
monthly labour earnings distribution and individual economic well-being differently in West
Germany and Great Britain. Besides varying labour market institutions in the two countries a
higher incidence of a combination of performance-related pay and unpaid overtime in Great
Britain is an important factor in explaining the observed differences. With regards to West
Germany, we show that the current policy of transforming paid overtime in ?working time
accounts?, which is conducted in the spirit of ?work-sharing?, is neither beneficial for
employed workers in terms of income mobility, nor in terms of overall job satisfaction nor in
terms of working time preferences.},
author = {Markus Pannenberg and Gert G. Wagner},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {J22; J33; J23; J31; 330; Overtime; wage inequality; economic well-being; semi-parametric decomposition technique; panel data; \"{U}berstunden; Lohn; Arbeitszeitflexibilisierung; Einkommenseffekt; Besch\"{a}ftigungseffekt; Sch\"{a}tzung; Vergleich; Deutschland; Gro\ss{}britannien},
language = {eng},
number = {318},
title = {Overtime Work Overtime Compensation and the Distribution of Economic Well-Being Evidence for the West Germany and Great Britain},
type = {IZA Discussion paper series},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21174},
year = {2001}
}
