Can Overtime Premium Flexibility Promote Employment? Firm- and Worker-Level Evidence from a Labour Law Reform

Martins, Pedro S.

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“…This change allowed the employers to reduce the remuneration for overtime. Martins (2016) finds evidence that firms that pay less overtime increase job creation, sales and overall overtime.…”

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Electronic monitoring of working time and labour market outcomes: Evidence from Brazil

Lira,

de Carvalho Schiavon,

da Silva Freguglia

2024

Industrial Relations Journal

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This study analyses the dynamics of registered firms after implementing a new law (2009) in the Brazilian labour market. The law proposed the electronic monitoring of working time to provide more efficiency and security by standardizing the equipment used for control and avoiding manipulation. As stricter monitoring may increase costs, this paper seeks to analyse whether there have been changes in the dynamics of firms adapting to the new regulation. There are two potential mechanisms as a reference: increasing wages and decreasing workers (or contracted hours), and increasing labour force and decreasing contracted hours per worker (and therefore the monthly wage). Using Brazilian employee–employer data and the difference‐in‐differences approach as an empirical strategy, our main findings suggest that firms that adapt to the new electronic workday control had a general reduction in the number of hours hired, an increase in wages for companies with 10–50 employees and a decrease in workplace accidents in firms with 50 or more employees.

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Electronic monitoring of working time and labour market outcomes: Evidence from Brazil

Lira,

de Carvalho Schiavon,

da Silva Freguglia

2024

Industrial Relations Journal

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Frontal assault versus incremental change: A comparison of collective bargaining in Portugal and the Netherlands

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Martins

Parlevliet

2019

IZA Journal of Labor Policy

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Collective bargaining has come under renewed scrutiny, especially in Southern European countries, which rely predominantly on sectoral bargaining supported by administrative extensions of collective agreements. Following the global financial crisis, some of these countries have implemented substantial reforms in the context of adjustment programmes, seen by some as a ‘frontal assault’ on collective bargaining. This paper compares the recent top-down reforms in Portugal with the more gradual evolution of the system in the Netherlands. While the Dutch bargaining system shares many of the key features that characterise the Portuguese system, it has shown a much greater ability to adjust to new challenges through concerted social dialogue. This paper shows that the recent reforms in Portugal have brought the system more in line with Dutch practices, including in relation to the degree of flexibility in sectoral collective agreements at the worker and firm levels, the criteria for administrative extensions, and the application of retro- and ultra-activity. However, it remains to be seen to what extent the top-down approach taken in Portugal will change bargaining practices, and importantly, the quality of industrial relations.

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Can Overtime Premium Flexibility Promote Employment? Firm- and Worker-Level Evidence from a Labour Law Reform

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Electronic monitoring of working time and labour market outcomes: Evidence from Brazil

Electronic monitoring of working time and labour market outcomes: Evidence from Brazil

Frontal assault versus incremental change: A comparison of collective bargaining in Portugal and the Netherlands

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