TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Biddle, Jeff E.
AU  - Hamermesh, Daniel S.
        TI  - Adjusting Labor along the Intensive MarginS
        PY  - 2024/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 17162
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp17162
        AB  - We expand the analysis of cyclical changes in labor demand by decomposing changes along the intensive margin into those in days/week and in hours/day. Using large cross sections of U.S. data, 1985-2018, we observe around ¼ of the adjustment in weekly hours occurring through changing days/week. There is no adjustment of days/week in manufacturing; but 1/3 of the adjustment outside manufacturing occurs through days/week. The desirability of bunched leisure implies that secular shifts away from manufacturing have contributed to increasing economic welfare.
        KW  - days
KW  - labor demand
KW  - work hours
KW  - recessions
        ER  -