Aggregate Impacts of a Gift of Time

Jungmin Lee, Daiji Kawaguchi and Daniel S. Hamermesh

No 17649, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: How would people spend additional time if confronted by permanent declines in market work? We examine the impacts of cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan around 1990 and Korea in the early 2000s. Using time-diaries from before and after these shocks, we show that these shocks were effective--per-capita hours of market work declined discretely. The economy-wide drops in market work were reallocated solely to leisure and personal maintenance. In the absence of changing household technology a permanent time gift leads to no increase in time spent in household production by the average individual.

JEL-codes: E20 J11 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-12
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Published as Jungmin Lee & Daiji Kawaguchi & Daniel S. Hamermesh, 2012. "Aggregate Impacts of a Gift of Time," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 102(3), pages 612-16, May.

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