What determines work hours?: who you work with or where you work

Sachiko Kuroda and Isamu Yamamoto

No f155, ISS Discussion Paper Series (series F) from Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo

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 f interactions with local peers.

Keywords: work hours; peer effect; neighborhood effect; group-interaction effect; paid leave (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J22 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2011-03-11
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