The incentive for working hard: explaining hours worked differences in the US and Germany

By Linda A. Bell, Richard B. Freeman. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, General Health Professions

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Labour Supply and Commuting (2009, neutral): “24 For example, see Borjas (1980), Costa (2000) and Bell and Freeman (2001).”
Your Money or Your Life: Changing Job Quality in OECD Countries (2005, neutral): “Endnotes 1 Bell and Freeman (2001) offer an incentive-based interpretation: hours of work have risen with inequality, with the latter being interpreted as the future rewards from promotion.”
The times they are not changin': Days and hours of work in Old and New Worlds, 1870-2000 (2007, background): “Bell and Freeman (2001) produce a similar result.”
Time to Work: (2003, background): “We also expect a greater preference for work in countries with higher rates of inequality, as dependency on work to maintain an acceptable standard of living is high (Bell & Freeman, 1995, 2000).”
Preferences for Redistribution (2009, background): “Bell and Freeman (1999, 2001) present evidence on this point and argue that more inequality has lead to stronger incentives to work longer hours; they argue that this may be an explanation of the longer working hours in the US than in Europe.20”
The psychological consequences of income inequality (2017, background): “Residents of the more unequal countries, for example, work longer hours than those of more equal ones, as working harder has a bigger monetary payoff when higher performers get more rewards (Bell & Freeman, 2001).”
Did Inequality Cause the U.S. Financial Crisis (2014, neutral): “Bell and Freeman (2001) also compare labour supply decisions in the United States and Germany and contribute the longer working hours in the United States to the more unequal earnings distribution.”
Why Has Work Effort Become More Intense (2004, neutral): “20 Bell and Freeman (2001) show that long-hours working is a significant determinant of pay several years later, in both the United States and Germany.”
Work intensity: potential antecedents and consequences (2010, background): “Issues related to work, including long work hours and work intensity, have been attracting increasing attention from scholars and practitioners ( Bell and Freeman, 2001”
Working Time Preferences, Hours Mismatch and Well-Being of Couples: Are There Spillovers? (2012, background): “…Kassenboehmer and Haisken-DeNew 2009), unemployment duration (Clark 2006), income compar- 1 A large body of empirical research reports working time mismatches (e.g., Altonji and Paxson 1988, Dickens and Lundberg 1993, Stewart and Swaffield 1997, Euwals and Van Soest 1999, Bell and Freeman 2001).”
Why Income Inequality Is Dissatisfying—Perceptions of Social Status and the Inequality-Satisfaction Link in Europe (2019, background): “This suggests that income inequality incites people to work harder, to accept jobs with difficult working conditions, and to work longer hours (Bell and Freeman, 2001; Bowles and Park, 2005)—behaviours that can also be interpreted as signals of social competition if resources are scarce and unequall”
Income inequality as a cause of the Great Recession?: A survey of current debates (2012, background): “These results are confirmed by findings in Bell and Freeman (2001) who use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) and estimate the effect of the dispersion of hourly wages on hours worked.”
Mismatches Between Actual and Preferred Work Time: Empirical Evidence of Hours Constraints in 21 Countries (2010, background): “Likewise, respondents with inflexible work schedules are more likely to want additional hours than respondents with flexible work schedules.”