Merz, Joachim; Osberg, Lars - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
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 … uses the variation (13 to 17) in public holidays across German Länder and the German Time Use Survey of 2001-02 to show …