TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Langot, François
AU  - Rojas, Coralia Quintero
        TI  - European vs. American Hours Worked: Assessing the Role of the Extensive and Intensive Margins
        PY  - 2008/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3846
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3846
        AB  - Europeans have worked less than Americans since the 1970s. In this paper, we quantify the relative importance of the extensive and intensive margins of aggregate hours of market work on the observed differences. Our counterfactual exercises show that the two dimensions of the extensive margin, the employment rate and the participation rate, explain the most of the total-hours-gap between regions. Moreover, both ratios have similar weight. Conversely, the intensive margin, measured by the number of hours worked per employee, has the smallest role.
        KW  - employment
KW  - participation
KW  - hours of market work
KW  - intensive and extensive margins
        ER  -