%0 Report
        %A Cardoso, Ana Rute
%A Hamermesh, Daniel S.
%A Varejão, José
        %T The Timing of Labor Demand
        %D 2008
        %8 2008 Dec
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 3885
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp3885
        %X 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.
        %K labor demand
%K time use
%K wage penalty