Maoz, Yishay (2007): Labor Hours in the U.S. and Europe - the Role of Different Preferences Towards Leisure.
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Abstract
Since 1950, the quantity of working hours has been decreasing over time both in the U.S. and in the main European economies. The European economies have started this mutual decline process with longer working hours than in the U.S., but have ended it with less working hours than the U.S. This article presents a model in which this dynamic pattern for the joint dynamics of their working hours is shared by two economies that differ only in the weight that their individuals put on leisure in their utility function and are identical in every other respect.
| Item Type: | MPRA Paper |
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| Institution: | Economics Department, University of Haifa |
| Original Title: | Labor Hours in the U.S. and Europe - the Role of Different Preferences Towards Leisure |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | Working hours; Economic Growth |
| Subjects: | O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity > O40 - General J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor > J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply |
| Item ID: | 5467 |
| Depositing User: | Yishay Maoz |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Oct 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Oct 2019 10:15 |
| URI: | https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/id/eprint/5467 |
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