in 2010, we find strong evidence that the activity follows a pattern of rational addiction. The result has implications …

This paper explores the extent to which workers are willing to trade hours worked for leisure time shared with their … spouse. This parameter is essential to properly assess contemporary trends in the regulation of work and leisure time. We use … but we show that a large fraction of them substitute a day of unpaid leisure for a day of paid work whenever their spouse …

potential mechanism is a lower frequency of leisure activities, since PRP incentives longer work hours. This study investigates … PRP's effect on a variety of leisure pursuits. After correcting for self-selection, UK data show that PRP workers are less … more likely to eat out and consume alcohol. Such leisure differences between PRP and salaried workers may negatively affect …

We analyse how unemployment affects individuals' social networks, leisure activities, and the related satisfaction … leisure time mostly to private activities, our results do not support the hypothesis of social exclusion following …

We analyse how unemployment affects individuals' social networks, leisure activities, and the related satisfaction … leisure time mostly to private activities, our results do not support the hypothesis of social exclusion following …

This paper argues that public holidays facilitate the co-ordination of leisure time but do not constrain the annual … amount of leisure. Public holidays therefore have benefits both in the utility of leisure on holidays and (by enabling people … to maintain social contacts more easily) in increasing the utility of leisure on normal weekdays and weekends. The paper …

-2005. We find that the time individuals have allocated to leisure has increased in the U.S. for both men and women during this … increase in leisure inequality, particularly for men. Over the last 20 years, less educated men increased the time they … allocated to leisure while more educated men recorded a decrease in leisure time. While the relative decline in the employment …