The labour Market Returns to Sleep

Joan Costa-Font, Sarah Flèche and Ricardo Pagan Rodriguez

Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne

Abstract: The proportion of people sleeping less than the daily-recommended hours has increased. Yet, we know little about the labour market returns to sleep. We use longitudinal data from Germany and exploit exogenous variation in sleep duration induced by time and local variations in sunset time. We find that a 1-hour increase in weekly sleep increases employment by 1.6 percentage points and weekly earnings by 3.4%. Most of this earnings effect comes from productivity improvements, while the number of working hours decreases with sleep time. We identify one mechanism driving these effects, namely the better mental health workers experience from sleeping more hours

Keywords: sleep; employment; productivity; mental health; sunset times (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I18 J12 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 58 pages
Date: 2022-11
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Working Paper: The Labour Market Returns to Sleep (2022)
Working Paper: The Labour Market Returns to Sleep (2022)
Working Paper: The Labour Market Returns to Sleep (2022)
Working Paper: The Labour Market Returns to Sleep (2022)
Working Paper: The Labour Market Returns to Sleep (2022)
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