Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organised to examine the relationship between their output and their working hours. The relationship is non-linear: below an hour's threshold, output is proportional to hours; above a threshold, output rises at a decreasing rate as hours increase. Implications of this finding for the estimation of labour supply functions are considered. The findings also link up with the current research on the effects of long working hours on accidents and injuries.
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Pencavel, J. (2015). The Productivity of Working Hours. Economic Journal, 125(589), 2052–2076. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12166
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