The effects of works councils on overtime hours - a censored quantile regression approach
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2012-11-19
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This study analyzes the impact of German codetermination rights on overtime hours. Using
German personal data, our results show that the effects of works councils strongly depend
on the contracted working time. Furthermore, we find a strong heterogeneity in the effects
of works councils across different quantiles of the overtime hours distribution. By
considering contracted working time effects and comparing conditional quantiles we find
that works council increase the amount of overtime hours if an employee regularly works 35
hours per week. This effect diminishes with increasing quantiles of the distribution of
overtime hours. If an employee regularly works 40 hours per week, works councils reduce
overtime hours. This reduction becomes larger if higher quantiles are analyzed.
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censored quantile regression, overtime work, works councils