Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
to work at night and on weekends. We examine the relationship between these two phenomena using the American Time Use … weekend work would drop by about 10 percent if European workweeks prevailed. Even if no Americans worked long hours, the … incidence of unusual work times in the U.S. would far exceed those in continental Europe. …