| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w20398 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 20398 |
| Does Labor Legislation Benefit Workers? Well-Being after an Hours Reduction | |
| Daniel S. Hamermesh; Daiji Kawaguchi; Jungmin Lee | |
| 发表日期 | 2014-08-21 |
| 出版年 | 2014 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Are workers in modern economies working "too hard"--would they be better off if an equilibrium with fewer work hours were achieved? We examine changes in life satisfaction of Japanese and Koreans over a period when hours of work were cut exogenously because employers suddenly faced an overtime penalty that had become effective with fewer weekly hours per worker. Using repeated cross sections we show that life satisfaction in both countries may have increased relatively among those workers most likely to have been affected by the legislation. The same finding is produced using Korean longitudinal data. In a household model estimated over the Korean cross-section data we find some weak evidence that a reduction in the husband's work hours increased his wife's well-being. Overall these results are consistent with the claim that legislated reductions in work hours can increase workers' happiness. |
| 主题 | Macroeconomics ; Consumption and Investment ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w20398 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578072 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Daniel S. Hamermesh,Daiji Kawaguchi,Jungmin Lee. Does Labor Legislation Benefit Workers? Well-Being after an Hours Reduction. 2014. |
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