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8 Trade Unions and Unpaid Overtime in Britain
, 2010
"... Trade unions have traditionally focused on working time aspects and have campaigned extensively against long working hours in Britain. An aspect of this long working hours “culture ” is the phenomenon of unpaid overtime, which has increased in extent and importance in Britain and other industrialize ..."
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Trade unions have traditionally focused on working time aspects and have campaigned extensively against long working hours in Britain. An aspect of this long working hours “culture ” is the phenomenon of unpaid overtime, which has increased in extent and importance in Britain and other
Temporary contracts and employee effort.
- Labour Economics,
, 2005
"... Abstract Temporary contracts provide employers with a tool to screen potential new employees, and have been shown to provide "stepping stones" into permanent employment for workers. For both reasons workers on temporary contracts have an incentive to provide more effort than permanent emp ..."
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employees. Using indicators for unpaid overtime work and absences taken from the Swiss Labor Force Survey we present evidence that temporary workers indeed provide higher effort than permanent employees: Their probability of working unpaid overtime exceeds that of permanently employed workers by 60 percent