Can US Coordination Failure Explain Why Americans Work So Much More than Europeans?
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US coordination failure; work; leisure; Europe;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D70 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - General
- J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAB-2014-03-30 (Labour Economics)
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