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| Title: | | How do unusual working schedules affect social life?  |
| Authors: | | Scheffel, Juliane |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | SFB 649 discussion paper 2011-025 |
| Abstract: | | The widening of the working hour distribution complicates the coordination of social leisure. This paper examines the short- and long-run impact of unusual working schedules on social life using German Time Use Data for 2001/02. I find evidence that younger workers with higher than median earnings seem to accept higher levels of solitary leisure as investment and because of the substantial wage premia. Younger workers tend to substitute sleep with free time. Older workers, in contrast, tend to sleep less which can be interpreted as elevated risk of mental and physical health. |
| Subjects: | | shift work non-standard working hours time allocation social capital social life solitary leisure adverse consequences |
| JEL: | | J22 J28 J81 D62 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | SFB 649 Discussion Papers, HU Berlin
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