Hours Worked in Europe and the United States: New Data, New Answers*
利用1983至2015年18个欧洲国家和美国的劳动力调查数据，构建了总人口及不同人群的工时指标，发现欧洲人比美国人少工作14%，并分析了周工时、就业率和教育结构等因素的贡献。
Abstract We use national labor force surveys from 1983 to 2015 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the United States. We apply a harmonization procedure to measure hours worked consistently across countries and over time. In the recent cross‐section, Europeans work 14 percent fewer hours than US Americans. Differences in weeks worked and in the educational composition each account for one quarter to one half of this gap. In addition, lower hours worked per person than in the United States are driven by lower weekly hours worked in Scandinavia and Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe.