.S. in recent decades, leisure inequality mirrors inequality of wages, i.e. we observe that highly-educated individuals have … now relatively less leisure time than lower-educated individuals.  What are the implications for evaluating individual … welfare?  This paper moves beyond the current published research, which has mostly concentrated on total time spent in 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 …

production, with no change in their leisure time. By looking at the individual components of home production, I find that the …

work, leisure, and personal care. We emphasize differences in time allocation between older (i.e., those aged 65+) and …

market work hours, home work hours (household chores), commute and leisure times in Brazil along 2001-2015. Analysis is made … by gender and is based on the National Household Survey (PNAD). Results show that men enjoy more time of leisure than … women, although this difference is reducing over time. For both men and women, there is an increase in leisure time …

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 document 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. We also find …

costs of remaining in the labor market that alter the pattern of non-market activities, reducing leisure time and mostly …

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 …

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 …