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[PEN-L:5931] Re: Re: Brad De Long on working hours

>The question of labor time he is fairly complicated.  An individual worker
>in an
>individual job works fewer hours.  A household with two wage earners might
>work
>more hours.  How we factor in commute times?  What about the workers
>holding two
>or three jobs, while others can only find the single part time job?
>

Nevertheless, the curious thing is the fall in the average urban workweek
from 3000 to 2000 hours, followed by pronounced stickiness at 2000
(although western Europe may be in a generation-long process of dipping to
1500)...
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