Get a life? the impact of the European Working Time Directive: The case of UK senior doctors

Peter J. Dolton; Michael P. Kidd; Jonas Fooken

doi:10.1002/hec.3082

Get a life? the impact of the European Working Time Directive: The case of UK senior doctors

Peter J. Dolton^*, Michael P. Kidd, Jonas Fooken

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This paper seeks to identify the effect of the implementation of the European Working Time Directive on the working hours of UK doctors. The Labour Force Survey is used to compare the working hours of doctors with a variety of control groups before and after the implementation of the directive. The controls include those unconstrained by the directive and doctor counterparts working in Europe. We use differences-in-differences and matching methods to estimate the impact of this natural experiment, distinguishing between the anticipation and enactment of the European Working Time Directive. We find that the legislation reduced the hours of senior doctors by around 8 hours in total including the component attributable to anticipation effects and allowing for (exogenously set) rising wages.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1272-1288
Number of pages	17
Journal	Health Economics (United Kingdom)
Volume	24
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3082
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2015
Externally published	Yes

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European Working Time Directive
evaluation of active labour market policy

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