Why do Americans work so much?

Nobody gives me what I want. What do I do, sit with my friends, and one of them wants to have a new gun that I want? of course not. If you want it, I will try to earn money to buy it.

With an average middle class salary, I have a house of reasonable size in the suburbs. There are several toys in the garage.

Unless I am working, I can not have all these things making me happy. During my three week vacation, we will spend time traveling long distances with one of the off-road toys to other regions of the USA, exploring my driving skills and testing I am planning.

Otherwise, I think I can live in a small apartment in the city, there are people around me around 24 hours around by using public transportation, but it sounds like a terrible lifestyle . This may be accepted in some parts of the world, but in the United States this is not the way we roll

Edward Prescott, one of my undergraduates, wrote a paper entitled "Why do Americans work more than Europeans?" In 2004. He thinks that there is a possibility that high marginal marginal tax rate hinders labor activities. Labor limit The opportunity cost of working hours rises compared to other leisure or non-market activities such as volunteers and childcare activities. Clearly, despite being practical, it is an adventurous idea to derive self-worth from our work. For beginners, this means that changes in the working environment will directly affect our moods and well-being, regardless of whether we will acquire a customer in a transaction or whether the project does not agree with a colleague . The situation has changed. In more general terms, it is very shortsighted to put all the value in work activities.

Rebecca J. Rosen pointed out that Keynes is largely correct in her article "Why Americans work like this" (Atlantic). When he published the paper in the 1930's, the average weekly working hours were 47 hours. Since then, working weeks have contracted until the 1970s. At this point it will flatten about 39 hours a week. Although Rosen and Nathan Schneider (secondary news) worked hard in socio-economics to solve the problem of the reason why the reduction of working time ceased despite the increase in productivity, when we really took 4 hours I wondered if I could achieve working time. I think that the answer is yes, but in order to do this, we need to do the following.