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The Productivity of Working Hours

Author(s) -

Pencavel John

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

the economic journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.683

H-Index - 160

eISSN - 1468-0297

pISSN - 0013-0133

DOI - 10.1111/ecoj.12166

Subject(s) - working hours , productivity , economics , demographic economics , labour economics , estimation , econometrics , macroeconomics , management

Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organised to examine the relationship between their output and their working hours. The relationship is non‐linear: below an hour's threshold, output is proportional to hours; above a threshold, output rises at a decreasing rate as hours increase. Implications of this finding for the estimation of labour supply functions are considered. The findings also link up with the current research on the effects of long working hours on accidents and injuries.

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