US hours at work

Simona Cociuba (), Edward Prescott and Alexander Ueberfeldt

Economics Letters, 2018, vol. 169, issue C, 87-90

Abstract: We construct quarterly US average hours worked using Current Population Survey data on employed persons at work and their actual hours worked. Our methodology can be applied to different demographic groups, providing researchers with readily available long-run series of hours.

Keywords: Labor supply; Actual hours worked; Employed persons at work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2018.05.021

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