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Blanchflower, David G. (contributor) - 2008

National Time Accounting is a way of measuring society's well-being, based on time use. Its explicit form is the U-index, for "unpleasant" or "undesirable", which measures the proportion of time an individual spends in an unpleasant state. In this paper I review cross-country evidence on...

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Is Leisure a Normal Good? Evidence from the European Parliament

Mocan, Naci H. - 2011

Prior to July 2009, salaries of the members of the European Parliament were paid by their home country and there were substantial salary differences between parliamentarians representing different EU countries. Starting in July 2009, the salary of each member of the Parliament is pegged to 38.5%...

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Wie Europäer ihre Zeit nutzen : Zeitstrukturen und Zeitkulturen im Zeichen der Globalisierung

Garhammer, Manfred - 1999

Wie organisieren europäische Gesellschaften ihre soziale Zeit? Wie verändert sich mit der Integration Europas und mit der Globalisierung der Alltag? Diese Fragen werden auf einer umfangreichen empirischen Basis in vier Gesellschaften, in Deutschland, Großbritannien, Spanien und Schweden,...

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Health inequality and the uses of time for workers in Europe : policy implications

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 2, pp. 1-18

conditions, and taxes on leisure activities. Using the Multinational Time Use Study, we find that a better perception of own … housework activities for both men and women. However, the evidence for the associations between health and leisure is mixed …

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Health status and the allocation of time : cross-country evidence from Europe

Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2014

devoted to sleep, personal care, and non-market work, for both men and women, and with less time in leisure for men, while it …-market work, and leisure, with mixed evidence for the rest of the uses of time. These findings are consistent with prior results … regarding health, market work, and leisure in the US. However, in contrast to the large positive correlation between health and …

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