Re: Working hours (Was: Why is America so violent)
On May 14, 2007, at 10:44 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote:
Would it be fair to conclude from the discussion that the official statistics, which register a historical decline in hours of work,
are still misleading in that they don’t capture the huge volume of unrecorded
and unpaid hours of work that many workers, predominantly those at the
higher education and income levels, perform at home or elsewhere outside
their workplace and their regularly scheduled working hours?
This is one of the reasons the BLS started the time use survey. For
the productivity series, they only have hard data for the number of
hours worked by production/nonsupervisory workers (about 80% of the
private workforce). They’ve been imputing supervisory hours based on
the production worker numbers and some 1970s-vintage survey data; the
time use survey is supposed to update that.
For the ambitious, the microdata can be downloaded from
Doug