Arbeitspapier
Not Working at Work: Loafing, Unemployment and Labor Productivity
Using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) 2003-12, we estimate time spent by workers in non-work while on the job. Non-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While the average time spent by workers in non-work conditional on any positive non-work rises with the unemployment rate, the fraction of workers who report time in non-work varies pro-cyclically, declining in recessions. These results are consistent with a model in which heterogeneous workers are paid efficiency wages to refrain from loafing on the job. That model correctly predicts relationships of the incidence and conditional amounts of non-work with wage rates and measures of unemployment benefits in state data linked to the ATUS, and it is consistent with observed occupational differences in non-work.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9095
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
- Thema
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time use
non-work
loafing
shirking
efficiency wage
labor productivity
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Burda, Michael C.
Genadek, Katie R.
Hamermesh, Daniel S.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2015
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Burda, Michael C.
- Genadek, Katie R.
- Hamermesh, Daniel S.
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2015
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