Has leisure increased over the last century? Standard measures of hours worked suggest that it has. In this paper, we … develop a comprehensive measure of non-leisure hours that includes market work, home production, commuting and schooling for …. Finally, leisure per capita is approximately the same now as it was in 1900 …

-wide influence on leisure patterns because of a social multiplier where the returns to leisure increase as more people are taking …

per worker have also been on a steady decline. As recreation goods make leisure time more enjoyable, we investigate if the … for the changing price of leisure faced by these groups over time. We then construct a macroeconomic model with general … that a large part of the decline in hours worked can be explained by the declining price of leisure. In contrast, we find …

implications for how aggregate labor supply responds to changes in taxes. In the first model, curvature in the utility from leisure … extent of curvature in the utility from leisure function …

(relatively) tax complements to leisure and subsidize substitutes because doing so helps to offset the distorting effect of …, Atkinson and Stiglitz (1976) claim to have demonstrated the opposite, that goods complementary with leisure should "face lower … optimality of relatively taxing leisure complements is indeed correct, and conflicting results are explained …

dramatic increase in leisure time lies behind the relatively stable number of market hours worked (per working-age adult …) between 1965 and 2003. Specifically, we show that leisure for men increased by 6-8 hours per week (driven by a decline in … leisure corresponds to roughly an additional 5 to 10 weeks of vacation per year, assuming a 40-hour work week. Alternatively …

From the theoretical point of view, the justification for aggregating leisure and work at home into one entity, "non … socioeconomic variables than is leisure, and this paper shows that the aggregation is also suspect from the analytical point of view …