Work and leisure in the U.S. and Europe: why so different?
"Americans average 25.1 working hours per person in working age per week, but the Germans average 18.6 hours. The average American works 46.2 weeks per year, while the French average 40 weeks per year. Why do western Europeans work so much less than Americans? Recent work argues that these diff...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Americans average 25.1 working hours per person in working age per week, but the Germans average 18.6 hours. The average American works 46.2 weeks per year, while the French average 40 weeks per year. Why do western Europeans work so much less than Americans? Recent work argues that these differences result from higher European tax rates, but the vast empirical labor supply literature suggests that tax rates can explain only a small amount of the differences in hours between the U.S. and Europe. Another popular view is that these differences are explained by long-standing European "culture," but Europeans worked more than Americans as late as the 1960s. In this paper, we argue that European labor market regulations, advocated by unions in declining European industries who argued "work less, work all" explain the bulk of the difference between the U.S. and Europe. These policies do not seem to have increased employment, but they may have had a more society-wide influence on leisure patterns because of a social multiplier where the returns to leisure increase as more people are taking longer vacations"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site. |
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| spelling | Alesina, Alberto 1957-2020 Verfasser (DE-588)125845804 aut Work and leisure in the U.S. and Europe why so different? Alberto Alesina ; Edward Glaeser ; Bruce Sacerdote Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2005 73 S. graph. Darst. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.>: NBER working paper series 11278 "Americans average 25.1 working hours per person in working age per week, but the Germans average 18.6 hours. The average American works 46.2 weeks per year, while the French average 40 weeks per year. Why do western Europeans work so much less than Americans? Recent work argues that these differences result from higher European tax rates, but the vast empirical labor supply literature suggests that tax rates can explain only a small amount of the differences in hours between the U.S. and Europe. Another popular view is that these differences are explained by long-standing European "culture," but Europeans worked more than Americans as late as the 1960s. In this paper, we argue that European labor market regulations, advocated by unions in declining European industries who argued "work less, work all" explain the bulk of the difference between the U.S. and Europe. These policies do not seem to have increased employment, but they may have had a more society-wide influence on leisure patterns because of a social multiplier where the returns to leisure increase as more people are taking longer vacations"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site. Gesellschaft Hours of labor Economic aspects Europe Hours of labor Economic aspects United States Hours of labor Social aspects Europe Hours of labor Social aspects United States Leisure Economic aspects Europe Leisure Economic aspects United States Europa USA Glaeser, Edward L. 1967- Verfasser (DE-588)124526373 aut Sacerdote, Bruce Verfasser (DE-588)124566006 aut Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.>: NBER working paper series 11278 (DE-604)BV002801238 11278 http://papers.nber.org/papers/w11278.pdf kostenfrei Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Alesina, Alberto 1957-2020 Glaeser, Edward L. 1967- Sacerdote, Bruce Work and leisure in the U.S. and Europe why so different? National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.>: NBER working paper series Gesellschaft Hours of labor Economic aspects Europe Hours of labor Economic aspects United States Hours of labor Social aspects Europe Hours of labor Social aspects United States Leisure Economic aspects Europe Leisure Economic aspects United States |
| title | Work and leisure in the U.S. and Europe why so different? |
| title_auth | Work and leisure in the U.S. and Europe why so different? |
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| title_full | Work and leisure in the U.S. and Europe why so different? Alberto Alesina ; Edward Glaeser ; Bruce Sacerdote |
| title_fullStr | Work and leisure in the U.S. and Europe why so different? Alberto Alesina ; Edward Glaeser ; Bruce Sacerdote |
| title_full_unstemmed | Work and leisure in the U.S. and Europe why so different? Alberto Alesina ; Edward Glaeser ; Bruce Sacerdote |
| title_short | Work and leisure in the U.S. and Europe |
| title_sort | work and leisure in the u s and europe why so different |
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