Long Workweeks and Strange Hours

Daniel Hamermesh and Elena Stancanelli

No 20449, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: American workweeks are long compared to other rich countries'. Much less well-known is that Americans are more likely to work at night and on weekends. We examine the relationship between these two phenomena using the American Time Use Survey and time-diary data from 5 other countries. Adjusting for demographic differences, Americans' incidence of night and weekend work would drop by about 10 percent if European workweeks prevailed. Even if no Americans worked long hours, the incidence of unusual work times in the U.S. would far exceed those in continental Europe.

JEL-codes: J08 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-09
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Published as Daniel S. Hamermesh & Elena Stancanelli, 2015. "Long Workweeks and Strange Hours," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 68(5), pages 1007-1018, October.

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