House Price Shocks, Windfall Gains and Hours of Work: British Evidence

Andrew Henley

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2004, vol. 66, issue 4, 439-456

Abstract: Do workers adjust hours of work in response to capital gains and losses? This paper investigates this question using British panel data on individual employees from 1992 to 2001. It investigates hours of work adjustments to two sources of capital gain: financial windfalls and real housing wealth gains. Significant reductions in hours are found for both men and women in response, in particular, to housing gains. Men appear to increase hours in response to real housing losses, whereas women reduce hours in response to real housing gains. Evidence on hours of work preferences suggests that observed adjustments are only partial responses.

Date: 2004
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