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人事経済学ワークショップを以下のとおり開催します。
奮ってご参加ください。
日時：2月29日（木） 17:00～18:30
開催形式：ハイブリット
開催場所：早稲田大学7号館203号室
ワークショップ終了後は懇親会を予定しております。
参加を希望される方は2/20(火)までに下記URLのフォームにご入力ください。
https://forms.gle/JpCRxDprJSFSdrtK6
オンライン参加URL: 以下より登録お願いします。
https://list-waseda-jp.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcufuihrTIjHterw556A13WVUdNZ-OF-kGI
報告者：早稲田大学 片山宗親先生
発表言語：日本語
報告タイトル： Nightless City: Impacts of Policymakers’ Questions on Overtime Work of Government Officials
要旨：
We quantify the impact of unexpectedly assigned tasks on overtime work in the context of Japanese government officials. Data on overtime work are typically not reliable. We overcome this problem by using mobile phone location data, which enables us to precisely measure the nighttime population in the government office district in Tokyo at an hourly frequency. Exploiting the exogenous nature of task arrivals, we estimate dynamic responses of overtime work. We find that, in response to an unexpected task, overtime work initially decreases and then increases persistently. Institutional changes to relax the time constraint and improve the working environment of government officials play a part in mitigating overtime work, but persistent increases in overtime work remain. We provide a simple model of optimal work allocation and show that distortion in intertemporal task allocation can account for the observed responses.
人事経済学ワークショップでは以下の通りウェブサイトを運用しております。
今後の予定については下記URLも併せてご確認ください。
https://sites.google.com/view/peworkshop/home
問合せ：早稲田大学 大湾研究室 [email protected]
大湾秀雄・高橋孝平
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Date: 29th February (Thu.) 17:00-18:30
Venue Room: 203 in Building 7, Waseda Campus, Waseda University
Format: Hybrid
We are planning to have a dinner after the workshop.
Please fill in the following form by 20th Feb. (Tue.) if you would like to participate.
https://forms.gle/JpCRxDprJSFSdrtK6
Please register the following Zoom link for participants online.
https://list-waseda-jp.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcufuihrTIjHterw556A13WVUdNZ-OF-kGI
Speaker: Prof. Munechika Katayama, Waseda University
Language: Japanese
Title: Nightless City: Impacts of Policymakers’ Questions on Overtime Work of Government Officials
Abstract:
We quantify the impact of unexpectedly assigned tasks on overtime work in the context of Japanese government officials. Data on overtime work are typically not reliable. We overcome this problem by using mobile phone location data, which enables us to precisely measure the nighttime population in the government office district in Tokyo at an hourly frequency. Exploiting the exogenous nature of task arrivals, we estimate dynamic responses of overtime work. We find that, in response to an unexpected task, overtime work initially decreases and then increases persistently. Institutional changes to relax the time constraint and improve the working environment of government officials play a part in mitigating overtime work, but persistent increases in overtime work remain. We provide a simple model of optimal work allocation and show that distortion in intertemporal task allocation can account for the observed responses.
Please check the website of the Personnel Economics Workshop below for the upcoming workshops.
https://sites.google.com/view/peworkshop/home
If you have any questions, please contact the Owan lab, Waseda University at [email protected]
