Hours Worked in Europe and the US: New Data, New Answers

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Alexander Bick and Bettina Brüggemann

VfS Annual Conference 2017 (Vienna): Alternative Structures for Money and Banking from Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association

Abstract: We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the educational composition each account for one third to one half of this gap. Lower hours per person than in the US are in addition driven by lower weekly hours worked in Scandinavia and Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe.

JEL-codes: E24 J21 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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Working Paper: Hours Worked in Europe and the US: New Data, New Answers (2016)
Working Paper: Hours Worked in Europe and the US: New Data, New Answers (2016)
Working Paper: Hours Worked in Europe and the US: New Data, New Answers (2016)
Working Paper: Hours Worked in Europe and the US: New Data, New Answers (2016)
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