The Timing of Labor Demand

Ana Rute Cardoso, Daniel S. and Jose Varejao ()
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Daniel Hamermesh

No 367, Working Papers from Barcelona School of Economics

Abstract: We examine the timing of firms' operations in a formal model of labor demand. Merging a variety of data sets from Portugal from 1995-2004, we describe temporal patterns of firms' demand for labor and estimate production-functions and relative labor-demand equations. The results demonstrate the existence of substitution of employment across times of the day/week and show that legislated penalties for work at irregular hours induce firms to alter their operating schedules. The results suggest a role for such penalties in an unregulated labor market, such as the United States, in which unusually large fractions of work are performed at night and on weekends.

Keywords: Labor demand; time use; wage penalty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J23 J78 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-12
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