An Economic Analysis of Overtime Pay Regulations

Don Boudreaux and Liya Palagashvili

No 6869, Working Papers from George Mason University, Mercatus Center

Abstract: This paper examines the US Department of Labor’s proposed regulation to extend overtime pay to employees with base salaries of $23,660 to $50,440. We find that the department provides no evidence that an “underpayment†or “overwork†problem exists in the

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Date: 2016-04-04
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