The Effect of Unpaid Overtime Hours on Health

Taisei Noda () and Takaaki Ikeda
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Taisei Noda: Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University
Takaaki Ikeda: Graduate school of Economics, The University of Tokyo

No 17-13, Discussion Papers in Economics and Business from Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics

Abstract: Do working overtime hours affect worker health? Does the effect depend on whether a worker receives overtime payment or not? In this paper, we examine the effect of overtime hours on health, paying attention to overtime payment. We use gPreference Parameters Study of Osaka University h from 2009 to 2013. The dataset enables us to control observable factors, for example: work environment, individual and household characteristics. Further, panel analysis is employed to remove unobservable heterogeneity. Our result shows a harmful effect of overtime hours to worker health. We also find that overtime hours deteriorate worker health only if the worker does not get paid for overtime.

Keywords: working hours; overtime; reward; panel data analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 J22 J81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2017-05
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