TY  - JOUR
AU  - Kuhn,Peter
AU  - Lozano,Fernando
TI  - The Expanding Workweek? Understanding Trends in Long Work Hours Among U.S. Men, 1979-2004
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 11895
PY  - 2005
Y2  - December 2005
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11895
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11895.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Peter J. Kuhn
Department of Economics
University of California, Santa Barbara
2127 North Hall
Santa Barbara, CA  93106
Tel: 805/893-3666
Fax: 805/893-8830
E-Mail: pjkuhn@econ.ucsb.edu

Fernando Lozano
E-Mail: fernando.lozano@pomona.edu
AB  - According to Census and CPS data, the share of employed American men regularly working more than 48 hours per week is higher today than it was 25 years ago.  Using CPS data from 1979 to 2006, we show that this increase was greatest among highly educated, highly-paid, and older men, was concentrated in the 1980s, and was largely confined to workers paid on a salaried basis.  We rule out a number of possible explanations of these changes, including changes in measurement, composition effects, and internet-facilitated work from home.  Among salaried men, increases in long work hours were greatest in detailed occupations and industries with larger increases in residual wage inequality and slowly-growing real compensation at 'standard' (40) hours.
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