Replication data for: How Do Hours Worked Vary with Income? Cross-Country Evidence and Implications

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Project Citation:

Bick, Alexander, Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola, and Lagakos, David. Replication data for: How Do Hours Worked Vary with Income? Cross-Country Evidence and Implications. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2018. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113113V1

Project Description

Summary: This paper builds a new internationally comparable database of hours worked to measure how hours vary with income across and within countries. We document that average hours worked per adult are substantially higher in low-income countries than in high-income countries. The pattern of decreasing hours with aggregate income holds for both men and women, for adults of all ages and education levels, and along both the extensive and intensive margin. Within countries, hours worked per worker are also decreasing in the individual wage for most countries, though in the richest countries, hours worked are flat or increasing in the wage. One implication of our findings is that aggregate productivity and welfare differences across countries are larger than currently thought.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      E23 Macroeconomics: Production
      E24 Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
      J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
      J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
      O11 Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
      O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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