Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/207476 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12651
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The share of overtime hours within total hours worked in Britain has declined from 4.8% to 2.9% between 1999 and 2018. This is equivalent to 321 thousand full-time jobs. We investigate this decline focussing on full-time and part-time males and females together with overtime pay effects that include the implications for the gender pay gap. We test for economic, structural and cyclical influences via a two-part regression model that allows us to differentiate between the incidence of overtime working and the average weekly hours of overtime workers. This investigation features collective bargaining coverage, job mobility, the minimum wage, industrial composition and the public/private sector dichotomy. The analysis covers the whole economy embracing nineteen 1-digit industries as well as a separate insight into the manufacturing industry where we feature vehicle manufacture.
Subjects: 
overtime hours
overtime pay
two-part regression model
JEL: 
J21
J22
J31
J52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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