Changes in hours worked, 1950?2000

By Ellen R Mcgrattan, Richard Rogerson. 2004

126 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This article describes changes in the number of average weekly hours of market work per person in the United States since World War II. Overall, this number has been roughly constant; for various groups, however, it has shifted dramatically - from males to females, from older people to younger people, and from single- to married-person households. The article provides a detailed look at how the lifetime pattern of work hours has changed since 1950 for different demographic groups. This article also documents several factors that lead to the reallocation of hours worked across groups: increases in relative wages of females to males; technological innovations that shift female labor from the home to the market; increases in Social Security benefits to retired workers; and changes in family structure. The data presented are based on those collected by the U.S. Bureau of the Census during the 1950?2000 decennial censuses.

Subfields: Gender Studies, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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In Gender Studies

1. Thomas Schelkle
2. J. Knowles
3. Alexander Ludwig
4. Edgar Vogel

In General Health Professions

1. Thomas Schelkle
2. J. Knowles
3. Alexander Ludwig
4. Edgar Vogel

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Thomas Schelkle
2. J. Knowles
3. Alexander Ludwig
4. Edgar Vogel

Citations in the corpus

• The Future of Social Security (2008, unknown): “See, for example, McGrattan and Rogerson (2004). to zero, labor supply reflects the movement of anticipated population growth rates, for reasons discussed earlier.”
• Demographic Change, Human Capital and Welfare (2012, methodology): “But such a magnitude is needed to make the McGrattan and Rogerson (2004) hours data broadly consistent with the common belief that agents spend about one third of their time working and standard practice of macroeconomists to calibrate their models (which we have followed).”
• The times they are not changin': Days and hours of work in Old and New Worlds, 1870-2000 (2007, unknown): “(McGratten and Rogerson, 2004), and Australia (Butlin, 1977); 1980–2000, ILO (2005), except for U.”
• A Brief History of Long Work Time and the Contemporary Sources of Overwork (2009, unknown): “There are detractors who observe no recent increase in hours at all (Greenwood and Vandenbroucke, 2005; McGratten and Rogerson, 2004; Ramey and Francis, 2006).”
• Why are married men working so much (2005, background): “Also the decline in leisure is driven partly by an increase in home hours, which is not considered in papers that focus on market work, such as McGrattan and Rogerson (2004).”