Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/102325 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8423
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
American workweeks are long compared to other rich countries'. Much less well-known is that Americans are more likely to work at night and on weekends. We examine the relationship between these two phenomena using the American Time Use Survey and time-diary data from 5 other countries. Adjusting for demographic differences, Americans' incidence of night and weekend work would drop by about 10 percent if European workweeks prevailed. Even if no Americans worked long hours, the incidence of unusual work times in the U.S. would far exceed those in continental Europe.
Subjects: 
night work
weekend work
shorter hours
JEL: 
J22
J08
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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