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Hours worked in Europe and the US : new data, new answers

Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2016

We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups 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...

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Short-time work compensations and employment

Cahuc, Pierre - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

Government schemes that compensate workers for the loss of income while they are on short hours (known as short-time work compensation schemes) make it easier for employers to temporarily reduce hours worked so that labor is better matched to output requirements. Because the employers do not lay...

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Short-time work compensation schemes and employment

Cahuc, Pierre - In: IZA World of Labor (2019)

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Short-time work compensations and employment

Cahuc, Pierre - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) May, pp. 1-10

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Covid-induced school closures in the US and Germany : long-term distributional effects

Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2022

Almost all countries worldwide closed schools at the outbreak of the Covid-19 crisis. I document that schooling time dropped on average by -55% in the US and -45% in Germany from the onset of the crisis to the summer of 2021. In the US, schools were closed longer in richer than in poorer areas,...

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The short-run macro implications of school and child-care closures

Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Kuhn, Moritz; Tertilt, Michele - 2020

The COVID19 crisis has hit labor markets. School and child-care closures have put families with children in challenging situations. We look at Germany and quantify the macroeconomic importance of working parents. We document that 26 percent of the German workforce have children aged 14 or...

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Why are average hours worked lower in richer countries?

Bick, Alexander; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Lagakos, David; … - 2020

Why are average hours worked per adult lower in rich countries than in poor countries? We consider two natural explanations: income effects in preferences, in which leisure becomes more valuable when income rises, and distortionary tax systems, which are more prevalent in richer countries. To...

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Two-tier labor markets in the great recession : France vs. Spain

Bentolila, Samuel; Cahuc, Pierre; Dolado, Juan J.; Le … - 2010

labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in …This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …

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