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Working Hours and Job Sharing in the EU and USA: Are Europeans Lazy? Or Americans Crazy?

Tito Boeri, Michael Burda, and Francis Kramarz

Print publication date: 2008

Print ISBN-13: 9780199231027

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2008

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199231027.001.0001

Explaining the Data

Chapter:
(p. 47 ) 2 Explaining the Data
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Working Hours and Job Sharing in the EU and USA
Author(s):

Michael C. Burda (Contributor Webpage)

Daniel S. Hamermesh

Philippe Weil

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199231027.003.0004

This chapter offers a variety of explanations for some of the facts discovered in Chapter 1. Of particular interest is the male-female differences in the amount of total work — market work plus household production. A theory of the mechanisms by which social norms can affect sex roles in market and non-market productive activities is developed. The chapter then proceeds to consider the welfare implications of coordinating non-market activities within a local or national economy and develops a model that helps to explain some of the findings in Chapter 1 on the timing of market work.

Keywords:   total work, market work, household production, welfare, US, Europe, non-market work

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