We study the impact of the Brexit referendum on the quality of employment and working conditions of workers in the National Health Service (NHS). Using a difference-in-differences (DiD) design and propensity score matching to compare NHS employees with a control group referring to occupations...

We study the impact of the Brexit referendum on the quality of employment and working conditions of workers in the National Health Service (NHS). Using a difference-in-differences (DiD) design and propensity score matching to compare NHS employees with a control group referring to occupations...

We explore the importance and nature of elderly couples' labor market interlinkages, and how such linkages shape the response to welfare reforms. To this end, we build a life cycle model with dual-earner households, featuring heterogeneous age gaps, non-separable leisure preferences, and...

It is a common practice in many cultures to use cannabis as a casual leisure activity, particularly for socialization and entertainment in North America and Europe. This study examines the daily use of cannabis and its connection to entertainment and socialization. The research surveyed young...

Recent research highlights the association of performance-related pay (PRP) and poor health. An uninvestigated potential mechanism is a lower frequency of leisure activities, since PRP incentives longer work hours. This study investigates PRP's effect on a variety of leisure pursuits. After...

Despite limited empirical support, vacations are marketed as beneficial for romantic partners. Using the self-expansion model as a foundation, we tested how self-expanding (e.g., novel, interesting, challenging) vacation experiences are associated with passion, physical intimacy, and...

This paper revisits Keynes's (1930) essay titled "The economic possibilities for our grandchildren." We discuss the three broader trends identified by Keynes that he expected would come to characterize the socio-economic evolution of advanced countries under individualistic capitalism: first,...

Purpose: This study applied the PPM model to study consumer behavior in non-face-to-face leisure activities in the era of the coronavirus pandemic. Design/methodology/approach: In order to achieve the purpose of this study, literature research and empirical research were conducted to derive...

This study aimed to assess the extent and identify the socio-economic predictors of subjective time poverty across genders, using a general population sample in Gauteng province of South Africa. Based on the composite time poverty index, 22% of men and 16.7% of women report being time poor. The...

In unserer digitalen, flexiblen Arbeitswelt verschwimmen die Grenzen zwischen Arbeits- und Privatleben für viele Berufstätige zunehmend. Dies kann Vorteile mit sich bringen, erschwert jedoch auch das mentale Abschalten von der Arbeit. Dieses Working Paper gibt eine Übersicht zu individuellen...

Suchthaftes Arbeiten stellt in Deutschland kein Randphänomen dar und ist über unterschiedlichste Berufsgruppen hinweg verbreitet. Auf Basis einer groß angelegten Erwerbstätigenbefragung untersucht die vorliegende Studie detailliert die Zusammenhänge zwischen suchthaftem Arbeiten und...

To what extent can accessing desired information transform our views, shape our behavior, or influence our wellbeing? What does occur in our mind when we find the information we need? Building upon these questions, what emotions arise in our consciousness when we encounter unexpected or...

The proportion of employees who work remotely has surged from under 5% to over 60% between January to March 2020, converging to roughly 28% of days working from home versus in the office as of 2023. This paper studies the allocation of time among workers in varying degrees of remote work jobs....

In this paper, we investigate the importance of various aspects of life-that is, the value of family, leisure, work, and friends distinguished by age and parenthood. Our data is from the European Values Study and World Values Survey, capturing 46 countries in Europe, East Asia, Latin America and...

It has been empirically observed that consumption responds positively to government spending shock, however, existing models with intertemporally-optimizing households do not easily reconcile this stylized fact. This paper aims to address this discrepancy between models and data, focusing on the...

We analyse how unemployment affects individuals' social networks, leisure activities, and the related satisfaction measures. Using the LISS panel, a representative longitudinal survey of the Dutch population, we estimate the effects by inverse propensity score weighting in a...

In unserer digitalen, flexiblen Arbeitswelt verschwimmen die Grenzen zwischen Arbeits- und Privatleben für viele Berufstätige zunehmend. Dies kann Vorteile mit sich bringen, erschwert jedoch auch das mentale Abschalten von der Arbeit. Dieses Working Paper gibt eine Übersicht zu individuellen...

Suchthaftes Arbeiten stellt in Deutschland kein Randphänomen dar und ist über unterschiedlichste Berufsgruppen hinweg verbreitet. Auf Basis einer groß angelegten Erwerbstätigenbefragung untersucht die vorliegende Studie detailliert die Zusammenhänge zwischen suchthaftem Arbeiten und...