% employees working more than 50 hours per week, 2014 OECD area
15 Aug 2016 6 Comments
in labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, public economics Tags: hours worked, taxation and labour supply
Not coincidentally, countries with high marginal income tax rates have low levels of long hours worked per week.
Data extracted on 14 Aug 2016 01:52 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat; Data does not include the self-employed.
Usual hours worked per New Zealand working week
20 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, labour economics, labour supply Tags: hours worked, inherent inequality of bargaining power, self-employed, small business
45% of New Zealand employers work at least 50 hours per week and 25% of the work at least 60 hours per week. Less than 15% of permanent employees work similar hours. Who is exploiting whom in the inherent inequality of bargaining power between employers and workers?
Source: Statistics New Zealand Survey of Working Life: December 2012 quarter.
The self-employed in the above chart employ no one else. Self-employed who also hire others are included in employers. In consequence, many of the self-employed are contractors rather than small business owners.
Hours worked per working age American, British and French since 1950
14 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, labour supply Tags: British economy, France, hours worked, taxation and labour supply
Data extracted on 10 Mar 2016 22:02 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat and The Conference Board. 2015. The Conference Board Total Economy Database™, May 2015, http://www.conference-board.org/data/economydatabase/
% female employees aged 25 to 54 working 40 or more hours per week across the OECD
12 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in gender, labour economics, labour supply Tags: 40 hour week, female labour force participation, hours worked, maternal labour force participation, part-time work, social insurance, taxation and labour supply
Hours worked per working age American and French and per American and French workers since 1950
12 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, labour supply Tags: France, hours worked, social insurance, taxation and labour supply
American workers are working fewer hours per year but more labour has been supplied by the working age population especially in the 1980s and 1990s. In France, there has been a steady decline of hours worked per worker and, up until 1985, hours worked per working age French.
Data extracted on 10 Mar 2016 22:34 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat, Data extracted on 10 Mar 2016 22:02 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat, and The Conference Board. 2015. The Conference Board Total Economy Database™, May 2015, http://www.conference-board.org/data/economydatabase/
% male employees aged 25 to 54 working 40 or more hours per week across the OECD
12 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply Tags: 35 hour week, 40 hour week, hours worked
The 40 hour week is rather rare in some parts of Western Europe.
Data extracted on 11 Mar 2016 13:44 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat
Almost everyone is working less.
01 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply Tags: hours worked
Hours worked per year across the OECD, 2014
21 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply Tags: hours worked
Average hours worked in main job
13 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply Tags: hours worked
Unions are not the cause of our 40 hour workweek
31 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, labour economics, labour supply, unions Tags: 40 hour week, hours worked, living standards, union power, union wage premium, working hours, working week
What’s the avg number of hours per year that people in your country work
28 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in economics, labour economics, labour supply Tags: hours worked
Hours worked per year across the OECD
31 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply Tags: hours worked
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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