Long Workweeks and Strange Hours

Daniel Hamermesh and Elena Stancanelli

ILR Review, 2015, vol. 68, issue 5, 1007-1018

Abstract: U.S. workweeks are long compared to workweeks in other rich countries. Much less well-known is that Americans are more likely to work at night and on weekends. The authors examine the relationship between these two phenomena using the American Time Use Survey and time-diary data from France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Only small portions of the U.S.–European differences are attributable to observable characteristics. Adjusting for demographic and occupational differences, Americans’ incidence of night and weekend work would drop by no more than 10% if the average European workweek prevailed. Even if no Americans worked long hours, the incidence of unusual work times in the United States would far exceed those in continental Europe.

Keywords: night work; weekend work; shorter hours (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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