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Overemployment mismatches: the preference for fewer hours
Lonnie Golden
Professor of Economics and Labor Studies, Penn State University, Abington College.
E-mail: Lmg5@psu.edu
Tesfayi Gebreselassie
Population Fellow, Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), Macro International.
E-mail: Tesfayi.Gebreselassie@macrointernational.com
The preference of workers for having either more or fewer hours of work has remained virtually unchanged since 1985; rates of overemployment differ considerably by job type, workweek length, income level, gender, and stage of workers’ life cycle.
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