utility derived from leisure time often benefits from the presence of companionable others inside and outside the household … propensities to engage in associative activity depend on the availability of Suitable Leisure Companions outside the household. Our …

paper three alternative measures of hours worked are used to estimate a simple labour supply function to investigate if …

This paper tests the predictive value of subjective labour supply data for adjustments in working hours over time. The … idea is that if subjective labour supply data help to predict next year?s working hours, such data must contain at least … some information on individual labour supply preferences. This informational content can be crucial to identify models of …

Most empirical studies on the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a … estimates are used to evaluate various model outcomes, like the wage elasticities of labour supply and the impacts of wage … pooling of men's earnings and the household's non-labour income in the female's budget constraint. These differences in …

posit that leisure time will be more sensitive to power considerations than housework time which may be more influenced by … supportive of these hypotheses, with leisure time on non-work days in the US being particularly responsive to economic power. In … enjoy more leisure time than would be suggested by their economic power alone. …

externalities in leisure. In this study, we investigate how retirement affects the hours of leisure together of individuals in a … effect of retirement on hours of leisure separate and together of individuals in a couple. We find that the retirement … retirement of the husband significantly increases own hours of leisure of the husband but it does not increase joint leisure …

) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure ('pure leisure', 'co-present leisure' and … 'leisure fragmentation') to show that the relative growth in leisure time enjoyed by less-educated individuals documented in … previous studies has been accompanied by a relative decrease in the quality of that leisure time. These results are not driven …

work declined discretely. The economy-wide drops in market work were reallocated solely to leisure and personal maintenance …

watching television over this period, and uncover a widespread increase in leisure inequality in favor of lower educated adults …. Trends in leisure inequality mirror the general increase in income and earnings inequality experienced in most countries over …, in contrast to the increases in leisure found for the US, we fail to find common trends in leisure time across countries …