Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to extract the optimal time allocation of weekly hours among work, sleep, sports, and internet use for 16 different demographic groups.Design/methodology/approach – The agent wishes to minimize the gap between his or her actual and optimal allocation...

This paper focused on estimating the participation rate of care giving to elders. We used a theoretical model frame that was in common use for analyzing activity in the labor market and adjusted it for analyzing the caregiving rate in elders. Using data of the rate of start taking care and the...