Assessing the Time‐Squeeze Hypothesis: Hours Worked in the United States, 1969–89

Leete, Laura; Schor, Juliet B.

doi:10.1111/j.1468-232x.1994.tb00325.x

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“…Although the U.S. labor force is the most productive in the world because of long hours worked (Leete & Schor, 2008), other labor forces are far more efficient (as assessed by the input to output ratio). According to the UN International Labor Organization's Key Indicators of the Labor Market 2001-2002, U.S. workers put in an average of 40 hours more per year than their counterparts did in 1990 (International Labor Organization, 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

Generational Differences in Work Values: Leisure and Extrinsic Values Increasing, Social and Intrinsic Values Decreasing

Twenge

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Journal of Management

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Generational Differences in Work Values: Leisure and Extrinsic Values Increasing, Social and Intrinsic Values Decreasing

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“…They also claim that conventional Current Population Survey estimates underestimated the 1965-1981 decline in work hours (compared to time-use estimates). This conclusion was, however, questioned by Leete and Schor(1994) who suggested that the Michigan Study, only measuring weekly hours, did not adequately reflect the substantial rise in weeks worked per year found in the CPS. 3 Leete and Schor(1994) found support for the "time-squeeze" hypothesis.…”

Section: Measures Of Market Timementioning

confidence: 89%

“…This conclusion was, however, questioned by Leete and Schor(1994) who suggested that the Michigan Study, only measuring weekly hours, did not adequately reflect the substantial rise in weeks worked per year found in the CPS. 3 Leete and Schor(1994) found support for the "time-squeeze" hypothesis. According to their results Americans worked longer hours and enjoyed less leisure at the end of the period.…”

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Estimates of a labour supply function using alternative measures of hours of work

Klevmarken¹

2005

European Economic Review

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit company supported by Deutsche Post World Net. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its research networks, research support, and visitors and doctoral programs. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in Estimates of a Labour Supply Function Using Alternative Measures of Hours of Work N. Anders Klevmarken D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available on the IZA website (www.iza.org) or directly from the author. ABSTRACT Estimates of a Labour Supply Function Using Alternative Measures of Hours of Work *Depending on data source, estimates of hours of work give widely different results both as to level and change. In this paper three alternative measures of hours worked are used to estimate a simple labour supply function to investigate if estimated wage rate and income effects are data dependent as well. The measures used include those from time-use surveys and those from regular surveys. The latter are based on the responses to a question about normal weekly hours of market work. The results suggest that estimates of the wage rate effects become much smaller when measures of normal hours are used compared to data collected for a well-defined time period close to the date of interview, such as time-use data. The income effects appear less sensitive to the choice of data. JEL Classification:J22, C81, C39

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“…However, most studies confirm the hypothesis that the average length of weekly and yearly working hours in the United States has increased or stagnated since the 1970s (Clarkberg and Moen 2001;Coleman and Pencavel 1993a,b;Hochschild 1997;Leete and Schor 1994), whereas the average length of weekly and yearly working hours in Western European countries has declined or stagnated (Alesina et al 2005;Ausubel and Grübler 1995;Golden and Figart 2005). Jacobs and Gerson (2004) have revealed a new macro-trend of bifurcation of working time in the United States: their empirical analysis shows that very long and very short work weeks have increased in the United States since the 1990s.…”

Section: Patterns Of Extreme Working Hours In Advanced Capitalist Socmentioning

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Extreme Working Hours in Western Europe and North America: A New Aspect of Polarization

Burger

2015

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThis paper analyzes the trends and root causes of extreme working hours in sixteen Western European countries, Canada, and the United States between 1970 and 2010. Earlier literature has revealed increasing trends in extreme working hours in the United States and recognized the negative repercussions of this new aspect of labor market polarization. As European average working hours have declined over the past decades, scholars have turned little attention to the analysis of extreme working hours in European countries. First, the article documents diverging patterns of extreme working hours in Western Europe. Whereas the Scandinavian and French ratios of workers with extreme hours remained very low, most other countries in Western Europe exhibit significantly higher ratios of extreme workers after the beginning of the 1990s than in the previous two decades. Second, the article detects the development of two diverging trajectories in the advanced capitalist world: one with a strong and stable labor regulation along with a balanced working hour profile and one with gradual deregulation along with an increasing ratio of long work weeks. Finally, using a series of pooled cross-section OLS estimations, the article tests five specific hypotheses, motivated by theories of the welfare state and political economy theories of globalization. The results provide strong empirical evidence for the notion that patterns of extreme working hours are not inherent in postindustrial development. The article uses data from the author's extreme working hours standardized meta-database which had been compiled from two large micro data collections: the Luxembourg Income Study database (LIS) and the Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS).

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Assessing the Time‐Squeeze Hypothesis: Hours Worked in the United States, 1969–89

Cited by 55 publications

References 6 publications

Generational Differences in Work Values: Leisure and Extrinsic Values Increasing, Social and Intrinsic Values Decreasing

Generational Differences in Work Values: Leisure and Extrinsic Values Increasing, Social and Intrinsic Values Decreasing

Estimates of a labour supply function using alternative measures of hours of work

Extreme Working Hours in Western Europe and North America: A New Aspect of Polarization

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