Arbeitspapier
The Effect of Working Hours on Health
Does working time causally affect workers' health? We study this question in the context of a French reform which reduced the standard workweek from 39 to 35 hours, at constant earnings. Our empirical analysis exploits variation in the adoption of this shorter workweek across employers, which is mainly driven by institutional features of the reform and thus exogenous to workers' health. Difference-in-differences and lagged dependent variable regressions reveal a negative effect of working hours on self-reported health and positive effects on smoking and body mass index, though the latter is imprecisely estimated. Results are robust to accounting for endogenous job mobility and differ by workers' occupations.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10524
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Health: General
Health Behavior
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- Thema
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working hours
health
smoking
BMI
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Berniell, Maria Ines
Bietenbeck, Jan
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2017
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Berniell, Maria Ines
- Bietenbeck, Jan
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2017
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