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| Title: | | Work and Television  |
| Authors: | | Corneo, Giacomo |
| Issue Date: | | 2001 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion paper series 376 |
| Abstract: | | Evidence from a sample of countries show that people roughly spend as much time watching television as earning their living. Moreover, television viewing and work hours are positively correlated across countries. A simple model based on complementarities in the organization of free time is developed that explains such a pattern as resulting from multiple equilibria. In this model the equilibria can be inversely Pareto-ranked by their amount of television viewing. Arguments are offered to explain why in some countries a Pareto-inferior equilibrium might have come into being. |
| Subjects: | | Television viewing work hours relational goods |
| JEL: | | J2 H0 D1 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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