Open AccessGovernment and The Labour Market: A Transatlantic Comparison
Author(s) -
Richard Rogerson
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
european view
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1865-5831
pISSN - 1781-6858
DOI - 10.1007/s12290-009-0076-8
Subject(s) - incentive , government (linguistics) , european integration , work (physics) , economics , scale (ratio) , political science , international economics , market economy , european union , geography , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , cartography , engineering
This paper documents the large differences in hours of work between the US and many European countries and how these differences have changed over time. It then discusses different explanations for these differences and presents evidence to suggest that it is differences in the scale of government activity, financed by taxes that distort the incentive to work, that are the prime factor behind the differences.
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