Externalities in leisure are considered an important reason for partners' joint retirement. This study quantifies the … extent to which partners actually spend more leisure time "together" at retirement. Exploiting legal retirement age in France …, we identify the effect of retirement on partners' hours of leisure, distinguishing leisure hours spent together or not …

Retirement ages among older Americans have only recently begun to increase after their precipitous fifty-year decline …. Early retirement may result from incentives provided by retirement systems; but it may also result from the rigidities … remaining in the labor market that alter the pattern of non-market activities, reducing leisure time and mostly increasing time …

-efficiency background, where leisure and effort at work are complementary. Using data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) for the … relationship between individual earnings and commuting and leisure. Our empirical results show that employment is mostly …