Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Research News: U.S. Workers Gain Leisure Time

The News:
U.S. Workers Gain Leisure Time, Study Says
NPR's Morning Edition, August 29, 2007 · Despite its label of the "no vacation-nation," leisure time in the United States has actually increased in the past 40 years, according to a new study. Men work less in the market than they used to. And women have gained leisure time, thanks to declines in work they do in the home.

The Research:
Read the research behind this story in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Volume 122:3 (August 2007), pp.969-1006. Article title: Measuring trends in leisure: the allocation of time over 5 decades by Mark Aguiar & Erik Hurst.

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