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Adjusting Labor Along The Intensive Margins

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Biddle, Jeff - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We expand the analysis of cyclical changes in labor demand by decomposing changes along the intensive margin into those in days/week and in hours/day. Using large cross sections of U.S. data, 1985-2018, we observe around 1/4 of the adjustment in weekly hours occurring through changing days/week....

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Adjusting labor along the intensive margins

Biddle, Jeff; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2024

We expand the analysis of cyclical changes in labor demand by decomposing changes along the intensive margin into those in days/week and in hours/day. Using large cross sections of U.S. data, 1985-2018, we observe around ¼ of the adjustment in weekly hours occurring through changing days/week....

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Not working at work : loafing, unemployment and labor productivity

Burda, Michael C.; Genadek, Katie R.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015

-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While the average time spent by workers in non …-work conditional on any positive non-work rises with the unemployment rate, the fraction of workers who report time in non-work varies … amounts of non-work with wage rates and measures of unemployment benefits in state data linked to the ATUS, and it is …

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Not working at work : loafing, unemployment and labor productivity

Burda, Michael C.; Genadek, Katie; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015

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Not Working at Work : Loafing, Unemployment and Labor Productivity

Burda, Michael C. - 2015

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The distribution of total work in the EU and US

Burda, Michael C. (contributor); … - 2006

Using two time-diary data sets each for Germany, Italy the Netherlands and the U.S. from 1985-2003, we demonstrate that Americans work more than Europeans: 1) in the market; 2) in total (market and home production)-- there is no one-for-one tradeoff across countries in total work; 3) at unusual...

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Aggregate impacts of a gift of time

Lee, Jungmin; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011

How would people spend additional time if confronted by permanent declines in market work? We examine the impacts of cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan around 1990 and Korea in the early 2000s. Using time-diaries from before and after these shocks,...

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The Distribution of Total Work in the EU and Us

Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - 2021

Using two time-diary data sets each for Germany, Italy the Netherlands and the U.S. from 1985-2003, we demonstrate that Americans work more than Europeans: 1) in the market; 2) in total (market and home production) - there is no one-for-one tradeoff across countries in total work; 3) at unusual...

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The labor market in the US : 2000-2020 : Covid-19 ended the longest US economic expansion, pushing unemployment to its highest level with a slow and incomplete recovery

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2021

remarkable drop in the labor force participation rate, reversing a nearly 50-year trend; the full recovery of unemployment after …

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The labor market in the US, 2000-2016 : recovery from the Great Recession is essentially complete, but there are difficult unemployment and wage issues

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2017

labor force participation rate, reversing a nearly 50-year trend; the nearly full recovery of unemployment from the depths …

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