The Productivity of Working Hours

John Pencavel

No 8129, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output and their working hours. The relationship is nonlinear: below an hours threshold, output is proportional to hours; above a threshold, output rises at a decreasing rate as hours increase. Implications of these results for the estimation of labor supply functions are taken up. The findings also link up with current research on the effects of long working hours on accidents and injuries.

Keywords: productivity; output; working hours; women workers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J22 J24 N34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 57 pages
Date: 2014-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-hrm, nep-lab and nep-lma
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Published - published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (589), 2052-2076

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