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Not Working at Work: Loafing, Unemployment and Labor Productivity / Michael Burda, Katie R. Genadek, Daniel S. Hamermesh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burda, Michael.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w21923.
- NBER working paper series no. w21923
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Not Working at Work
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016.
- Summary:
- We use the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) 2003-12 to 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 average time spent by workers in non-work conditional on any positive amount rises with the unemployment rate, the fraction of workers reporting positive values 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 estimated occupational differences.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- January 2016.
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