Start Time and Worker Compensation: Implications for Staggered-Hours Programs

Eva Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau and Jos van Ommeren (jos.van.ommeren@vu.nl)

No 310, SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research from DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Abstract: There is little known about the effects of staggered-hours programs that affect workers' working schedules to mitigate peak congestion. We examine the effect of workers' morning start times on their wages for Germany. In contrast to previous work based on cross-section data, we demonstrate that wages are not, or may be, a slight inverse U-shaped function of start time suggesting that staggered-hours programs might be welfare enhancing.

Keywords: Work start time; wage; productivity; staggered work hours; congestion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J2 J3 R41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 p.
Date: 2010
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.358470.de/diw_sp0310.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Start Time and Worker Compensation Implications for Staggered-Hours Programmes (2012)
Working Paper: Start Time and Worker Compensation: Implications for Staggered-Hours Programs (2010)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:diw:diwsop:diw_sp310

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research from DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Bibliothek (bibliothek@diw.de).