Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/263421 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15205
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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 days to which French employees are entitled vary in a quasi-random way, from year to year, along with the dates of public holidays. Self-employed workers do not benefit from public holidays but we show that a large fraction of them substitute a day of unpaid leisure for a day of paid work whenever their spouse gets an extra day of paid leave.
Subjects: 
leisure
synchronization
public holidays
JEL: 
J22
D13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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