We examine how the practice of accounting for one’s time - so that work can be billed or charged to specific clients or projects - affects the decision to allocate time to volunteer activities. Using longitudinal data collected from law students transitioning to their first jobs, Study 1...

Using longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey, the authors examine how individuals' employment compensation - salaried or hourly - affects their decisions to trade time for money. Results indicate that there is a positive association between hourly wages and a desire to...

People acquire ways of thinking about time partly in and from work organizations, where the control and measurement of time use is a prominent feature of modern management — an inevitable consequence of employees selling their time for money. In this paper, we theorize about the role...

The common heuristic association between scarcity and value implies that more valuable things appear scarcer (King, Hicks, & Abdelkhalik, 2009), an effect we show applies to time. In a series of studies we find that both income and wealth, which affect the economic value of time, influence...