Bowles, Samuel; Park, Yongjin - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2003
inequality. We use data on work hours of manufacturing employees in ten countries over the period 1963-1998, along with three … different measures of income inequality to explore this hypothesis. Using both OLS and country-fixed-effects estimates, we find … that greater inequality predicts longer work hours. Its effects are large, and estimates are robust across a variety of …