TY - BOOK AU - Boeri,Tito AU - Burda,Michael C. AU - Kramarz,Francis TI - Working hours and job sharing in the EU and USA: are Europeans lazy? Or Americans crazy? T2 - Reports for the Fondazione Rodolfo DeBenedetti SN - 9780191710834 (ebook) : AV - HD5124 U1 - 331.257094 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Hours of labor KW - European Union countries KW - Congresses KW - United States KW - Labor productivity KW - Job sharing N1 - Selected conference papers; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Why do Europeans work so little compared to Americans? Can they be induced to work more without reducing labour productivity? This volume explores these questions and more in order to understand the changing nature of the hours worked in the USA and EU, as well as the effects of policies that impose working hour restrictions UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199231027.001.0001 ER -