Do workers in richer countries work longer hours?
Economic prosperity in different places across our world today is vastly unequal. People in Switzerland, one of the richest countries in the world, have an average income that is more than 20-times higher than that of people in Cambodia.1 Life in these two countries can look starkly different.2
When considering such differences in prosperity, a natural question is: who works more, people in richer countries like Switzerland or in poorer ones like Cambodia?Looking at the available data, the answer is clear: workers in poorer countries actually tend to work more, and sometimes much more.