Keeping in touch: a benefit of public holidays using time use diary data
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In: Electronic International Journal of Time Use Research, Vol. 6, No. 1, 01.09.2009, p. 130-166.
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T1 - Keeping in touch
T2 - a benefit of public holidays using time use diary data
AU - Merz, Joachim
AU - Osberg , Lars
N1 - Literaturverz. S. 166 - 167
PY - 2009/9/1
Y1 - 2009/9/1
N2 - This paper argues that public holidays facilitate the co-ordination of leisure time but do not constrain the annual amount of leisure. Public holidays therefore have benefits both in the utility of leisure on holidays and (by enabling people to maintain social contacts more easily) in increasing the utility of leisure on normal weekdays and weekends. The paper uses the variation in public holidays across German Länder based on more than 37.000 individual diary data of the actual German Time Use Survey of 2001-02 to illustrate the positive association between more public holidays and social life on normal weekdays and weekends. These benefits are additional to the other, direct benefits of public holidays.
AB - This paper argues that public holidays facilitate the co-ordination of leisure time but do not constrain the annual amount of leisure. Public holidays therefore have benefits both in the utility of leisure on holidays and (by enabling people to maintain social contacts more easily) in increasing the utility of leisure on normal weekdays and weekends. The paper uses the variation in public holidays across German Länder based on more than 37.000 individual diary data of the actual German Time Use Survey of 2001-02 to illustrate the positive association between more public holidays and social life on normal weekdays and weekends. These benefits are additional to the other, direct benefits of public holidays.
KW - Economics
KW - public holidays
KW - social contacts
KW - social leisure time
KW - time allocation
KW - time use diaries
KW - German time budget survey 2001/2002
KW - Gender and Diversity
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/90f63944-782b-3a42-a2d7-e74e7978e5d1/
U2 - 10.13085/eIJTUR.6.1.130-166
DO - 10.13085/eIJTUR.6.1.130-166
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 6
SP - 130
EP - 166
JO - Electronic International Journal of Time Use Research
JF - Electronic International Journal of Time Use Research
SN - 1860-9937
IS - 1
ER -