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April 2007

Overemployment mismatches: the preference for fewer hours

Lonnie Golden, Tesfayi Gebreselassie

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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