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International evidence on well-being
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003679395
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Tendências nas horas dedicadas ao trabalho e lazer: Uma análise da alocação do tempo no Brasil
Barbosa, Ana Luiza Neves de Holanda - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146750
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Tendências nas horas dedicadas ao trabalho e lazer : uma análise da alocação do tempo no Brasil
Barbosa, Ana Luiza Neves de Holanda - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011942091
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Measuring trends in leisure: The allocation of time over five decades
Aguiar, Mark; Hurst, Erik - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280871
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Empirical estimation results of a collective household time allocation model
Klaveren, Chris van (contributor);  … - 2006
In this paper an empirical model is developed where the collective household model is used as a basic framework to describe the time allocation problem. The collective model views household behavior as the outcome of maximizing a household utility function which is a weighted sum of the utility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314675
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A public good version of the collective household model : an empirical approach with an application to British household data
Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Maassen … - 2008
In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for twoearnerhouseholds. The novelty of this paper is that we estimate a version of the collectivehousehold model, where the internally produced goods and the externally purchased goodsare assumed to be public....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374423
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Empirical estimation results of a collective household time allocation model
Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Maassen … - 2005
In this paper an empirical model is developed where the collective household model is used as a basic framework to describe the time allocation problem. The collective model views household behavior as the outcome of maximizing a household utility function which is a weighted sum of the utility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346466
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Household sharing and commitment : evidence from panel data on individual expenditures and time use
Lise, Jeremy; Yamada, Ken - 2014
individual-specific within-household consumption expenditures and on time used for leisure, market production and home production …, private leisure, and a public good produced in the home with time and market purchased inputs. We find that the household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010255369
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Wages and Family Time Allocation
Theloudis, Alexandros - 2018
This paper examines changes in married people's allocation of time since 1980, a period in which female labor supply increased substantially, men's share of household work rose, and the gender wage gap narrowed down. I develop a life-cycle collective household model for market and non-market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927088
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A Public Good Version of the Collective Household Model : An Empirical Approach with an Application to British Household Data
Klaveren, Chris van - 2008
In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for two-earner households. The novelty of this paper is that we estimate a version of the collective household model, where the internally produced goods and externally purchased goods are assumed to be public....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768343