Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of Time Over Five Decades
Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of Time Over Five Decades
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10.2139/ssrn.887526
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2006-01
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Erik Hurst;Mark Aguiar
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作者：
Erik Hurst;Mark Aguiar
在本文中，我们使用了50年的时间使用调查，以记录在美国的时间分配的趋势。我们发现，在1965年至2003年之间，休闲时间的急剧增加背后是相对稳定的市场工作时间。具体来说，使用各种定义的休闲，我们表明，男性每周的休闲时间增加了大约6到9个小时（由市场工作时间的减少驱动），女性每周增加了大约4到8个小时（由家庭生产工作时间的减少驱动）。最后，我们证明了休闲的不平等日益加剧，这是工资和支出不平等日益加剧的镜像，使得仅基于后者的福利计算是不完整的。
In this paper, we use five decades of time-use surveys to document trends in the allocation of time within the United States. We find that a dramatic increase in leisure time lies behind the relatively stable number of market hours worked between 1965 and 2003. Specifically, using a variety of definitions for leisure, we show that leisure for men increased by roughly six to nine hours per week (driven by a decline in market work hours) and for women by roughly four to eight hours per week (driven by a decline in home production work hours). Lastly, we document a growing inequality in leisure that is the mirror image of the growing inequality of wages and expenditures, making welfare calculation based solely on the latter series incomplete.