Part time employment fulfills an important matching role in the labor market, given many workers’ preference for less than full time workweeks with many employers’ demand for less than full time labor input for certain jobs. Do part time workers in the US labor market earn less per hour than...

The intensity of use of overtime hours has risen markedly since the early 1990s. Recent research suggests that there has been a structural break in manufacturing productivity beginning in the 1990s in the US. This paper investigates how a given increase or decrease in hours - measured here as...

Several key trends across most advanced economic economies have increased both desired hours of work and the salience of working time on well-being. Models in the economics discipline offer both labor supply and labor demand reasons to explain why many people might be willing to work longer...