Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/302679 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17162
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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. There is no adjustment of days/week in manufacturing; but 1/3 of the adjustment outside manufacturing occurs through days/week. The desirability of bunched leisure implies that secular shifts away from manufacturing have contributed to increasing economic welfare.
Subjects: 
days
labor demand
work hours
recessions
JEL: 
J23
E24
J21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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