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Daniel Hamermesh

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Americans Work Too Much, and That Needs to Change

September 4, 2014 by Daniel Hamermesh

Work much lately? As we celebrated the American labor movement with Labor Day, a sad fact that we must face is that U.S. workers work more than their counterparts in other wealthy countries, and it doesn’t benefit us much. The average U.S. workweek is 41 hours, compared with Britain’s 38 hours, Germany’s 37 hours and […]

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