Do Peers Affect Determination of Work Hours? Evidence Based on Unique Employee Data from Global Japanese Firms in Europe

Sachiko Kuroda and Isamu Yamamoto

Journal of Labor Research, 2013, vol. 34, issue 3, 359-388

Abstract: By using a unique dataset on managerial-level employees who were transferred from Japan to European branches of the same global firms, we examine what would happen to work hours when a worker moves from a long-hour-working country to relatively shorter-hour countries. Even after controlling for business cycles, unobserved individual heterogeneity, job characteristics, and work hour regulations, we find a significant decline in Japanese work hours after their transfer to Europe, resulting from working-behavior influences of locally hired staff. We also find that the reduction in hours worked highly depends on the extent of the workers’ interactions with local peers. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013

Keywords: Work hours; Peer effect; Neighborhood effect; Group-interaction effect; Paid leave; J22; J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/s12122-013-9164-2

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