The Productivity of Working Hours
By John H. Pencavel. Social Science Research Network, 2015
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Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output and their working hours. The relationship is nonlinear: below an hours threshold, output is proportional to hours; above a threshold, output rises at a decreasing rate as hours increase. Implications of these results for the estimation of labor supply functions are taken up. The findings also link up with current research on the effects of long working hours on accidents and injuries.
Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Citations in the corpus
- Working Hours and Productivity (2017, background): “On the other hand, worker fatigue could set in after a number of hours worked, so that the marginal effect on productivity of an extra hour per worker starts decreasing (Pencavel, 2015).”