Constraints on the Desired Hours of Work of British Men
利用1991年英国家庭面板调查数据，发现超过三分之一男性体力劳动者希望减少工作时间，平均期望每周比实际少4.3小时；工作不安全和替代工作机会稀缺使雇主能设定高于员工偏好的工时约束，且最低工时约束随个人面临的失业率上升而增加。
This paper investigates constraints on desired hours of work using information on hours preferences from the British Household Panel Survey for 1991. Over a third of male manual workers would prefer to work fewer hours at the prevailing wage than they do and we estimate that on average desired hours per week are 4.3 lower than actual hours. We hypothesise that job insecurity and scarcity of alternative job opportunities enable employers to set hours constraints above employee preferences and find that the minimum hours constraints set by firms are an increasing function of the unemployment rate an individual faces.