; ; ; "ActiveFedora::Aggregation::ListSource" . a , ; "Why Do Americans Work So Much More Than Europeans?"; ; "batchuser@example.com"; "Prescott, Edward C."; "Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis"; "International Tax Rates", "International Labor Supply", "Social Security Reform"; "E24 - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity", "H20 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General", "E13 - General Aggregative Models: Neoclassical", "E62 - Fiscal Policy"; "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. In this paper, I examine 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 that of the G-7 countries, which are major advanced industrial countries. The surprising finding is that this marginal tax rate accounts for the predominance of the differences at points in time and the large change in relative labor supply over time with the exception of the Italian labor supply in the early 1970s."^^; "2003-11"; "2019-06-21T20:22:13.097256838+00:00"^^; "https://doi.org/10.21034/sr.321"; ; "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"; "Thu Nov 7 22:08:03 2019"; "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"; "Research Paper"; "628"; "Staff report (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department)"; "321"; "International Tax Rates", "International Labor Supply", "Social Security Reform"; ; ; ; ; "Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department"; """Published in: _Quarterly Review_ (Vol. 28, No. 1, July 2004, pp. 2-13) https://doi.org/10.21034/qr.2811. [Additional Files](https://researchdatabase.minneapolisfed.org/concern/publications/g158bh45b?locale=en)"""^^; ; "Publication" . ; .