Number: 97-884
Title: Longer Overtime Hours: The Effect of the Rise in Benefit Costs
Authors: Linda Levine, Domestic Social Policy Division 
Abstract: This report examines whether manufacturers have been relying more on overtime in the 1990s than they did in earlier decades. It then explores why overtime hours might fluctuate in the short-run and why they might have increased in the long-run. The report concludes with an examination of whether raising the Fair Labor Standard Act's overtime premium implementing work-sharing, or curbing the growth of legally required benefits would have prompted firms to create more jobs than they did in recent years.
Pages: 10
Date: September 6, 2000