Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62443 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6652
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Increases in standard hours have been a contentious policy issue in Germany. Whilst this might directly lead to a substitution of workers by hours, there may also be a positive employment effect due to reduced costs. Moreover, the response of firms differs between firms which offer overtime and those which do not. For a panel of German plants (2001-2006), we analyse the effect of increased standard hours on employment. Using difference-in-difference methods we find that, consistent with theory, overtime plants showed a significant positive employment response, whilst for standard-time plants there is no difference at all between plants which increased standard hours and those which did not.
Subjects: 
working time
employment
plant-level data
difference-in-differences
JEL: 
C23
J23
J81
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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