《Why Do Americans Work So Much More Than Europeans?》是Edward C. Prescott在Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review
Vol. 28, No. 1, July 2004, pp. 2–13的文章，内容简介Abstract：Americans now work 50 percent more than do the Germans, French, and Italians.This was not the case in the early 1970s, when the Western Europeans worked more than Americans. This article examines the role of taxes in accounting for the differences in labor supply across time and across countries;in particular, the effective marginal tax rate on labor income. The population of countries considered is the G-7 countries, which are major advanced industrial  countries. The surprising fi nding is that this marginal tax rate accounts for the  predominance of differences at points in time and the large change in relative  labor supply over time.
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Senior Monetary Adviser
Research Department
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
and W.P. Carey Chair
Department of Economics
Arizona State University