This paper explores the extent to which workers are willing to trade hours worked for leisure time shared with their spouse. This parameter is essential to properly assess contemporary trends in the regulation of work and leisure time. We use the fact that the number and timing of paid vacation...

This paper presents selected case studies of mergers and acquisitions in the entertainment sector that took place in the 21st century. The analysis carried out allows us to conclude that M&A processes in the entertainment sector are as complex as M&A processes in technology industries and...

COVID-19 has a negative impact on business performance through anti-contagion regulations and consumers’ self-restraints. It is especially serious in specific service industries such as hospitality, tourism, entertainment, and cultural industries. Empirical studies have been carried out on the...

This paper examines the impact of vaccination programs on the stock market volatility of the travel and leisure sector. Using daily data from 56 countries over the period from January 2020 to March 2021, we find that vaccination leads to a decrease in the investment risk of travel and leisure...

Recreation prices and hours worked have both fallen over the last century. We construct a macroeconomic model with general preferences that allows for trending recreation prices, wages, and work hours along a balanced-growth path. Estimating the model using aggregate data from OECD countries, we...

The scope of this study is to examine the impact of board gender diversity on corporate cash-holding decisions within the European sport and leisure sector. A sample of 125 unique firms was selected for the period from 2008 to 2019, and analysis was performed using panel fixed-effects...

In the very popular FOX TV reality show, American Idol, the judges, who are presumably experts in evaluating singing effort, have no voting power when the field is narrowed to the top twenty-four contestants. It is only the votes of viewers that count. In the 2007 season of the show, one of the...

The United States economy, as well as the economies of several other highly industrialized nations, has experienced significant changes in sector composition over the last fifty years. The United States economy has shifted from manufacturing to a service based economy, where services represent...

Corporations are consistently finding themselves at the forefront of social conversations as corporate boycotts and corporate social responsibility methods are becoming more ubiquitous in society. There has never been a better example of this than the entertainment industry’s response to...

Has leisure increased over the last century? Standard measures of hours worked suggest that it has. In this paper, we develop a comprehensive measure of non-leisure hours that includes market work, home production, commuting and schooling for the last 105 years. We also present empirical and...

Chapter-1: Emerging trends for reshaping digital entertainment: Role of demographics, consumer, and technological innovations -- Chapter 2: Digital Solution for Broadcast Media: Role of Pandemic and Sustainable Development of depleting industries -- Chapter 3: Digital Solution for Entertainment:...

"This innovative textbook explains how sport and leisure organisations can become more entrepreneurial in order to achieve sustainable growth. It introduces key tools, techniques and approaches that can help sport and leisure organisations put entrepreneurship at the centre of their culture....

Advances in Hospitality and Leisure (AHL), a peer-reviewed research journal, has been published annually since 2004. AHL is indexed in Scopus and included in the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) journal quality list. Its editors, editorial board members, ad-hoc reviewers entail scholars...

Past worker flows show that among the sectors hit hard by the COVID-19 epidemic, workers in "Transportation" accumulate relatively more human capital. In the event of large worker reallocation, this sector's productivity would be hit harder and need longer to recover due to the loss of firm and...

Between the months of February and April of 2020, average weekly market hours dropped by 6.25, meanwhile 35% of commuting workers reported switching to remote work arrangements. In this paper, we examine implications of these changes for the time allocation of different households, and on...

Abstract: The Indian Media and Entertainment industry (M&E) registered a growth of 13.4 per cent in 2018 vis-à-vis 2017 at a CAGR of 11.6 per cent which is more than the GDP growth of the country. It reached USD 23.9 billion in 2018, and is expected to grow to USD 33.6 billion by 2021. This...

The real price of recreation goods and services has fallen dramatically over the last century. At the same time, hours per worker have also been on a steady decline. As recreation goods make leisure time more enjoyable, we investigate if the fall in their price has contributed to the decline in...

In this paper, starting from the two-sector Uzawa-Lucas model, we study a three-sector endogenous growth model with leisure services. By extending the endogenous growth model with leisure developed by Ladrón-de Guevara et al. [1999], our model generalizes the standard time allocation problem,...

The income-leisure trade-off, whilst prominent in textbooks, is largely absent in the income-happiness debate. Multilevel or hierarchical linear modeling is introduced and used to investigate the income-leisure-happiness nexus. Leisure has a positive effect on happiness, but lowers the effect of...

Dumbo is Walt Disney's myth of modernity, a film in which he uses a story about infant-mother separation as a vehicle for assimilating modern technology and management structure to the evolved mechanisms of the human mind. This paper considers psychoanalytic and evolutionary psychology, examines...