Diminishing returns at work : the consequences of long working hours /
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Diminishing Returns at Work; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Why Working Hours?; 2. A Brief History of Working Hours; Trade Unions; Employers; Statutory Legislation; A Market Explanation; America and Britain Contrasted; What Has Been Learned?; 3. Conceptual Framework; An Expression Inspired by Charles Cobb and Paul Douglas; An Expression Inspired by Benjamin Gompertz; 4. Estimates of Production Functions; Observations Collected by Horace Vernon During the First World War
- Observations Collected by the Industrial Health Research Board During the Second World WarObservations Collected by Max Kossoris and Reinfried Kohler During the Second World War; Observations Collected by Ben Craig on Plywood Mills in the State of Washington; Some Conclusions About Hours and Output of Workers from These Four Cases; 5. Further Implications of the Augmented Production Functions; Part-​Time and Full-​Time Workers; Overtime Work; Macroeconomics; 6. Hours of Work, Health, and Well-​Being; Cognitive Function; Cardiovascular Disease; Nationally Representative Populations
- Injuries and AccidentsThe Well-​Being of the Household; 7. The Association Between Working Hours and Hourly Earnings; The Demise of a Basic Issue; Information Provided by Self-​Employed Workers; A Third Class of Explanations; 8. Concluding Notes; Data Appendices; References; Index