Work and Television

Giacomo Corneo

No 3373, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: Nowadays, people in OECD countries spend about as much time watching television as earning a living. In this Paper I report a puzzling fact about those time uses: television viewing and work hours are positively correlated across countries. A simple model based on complementarities in the organization of free time is then developed that explains such a pattern as resulting from multiple equilibria. All equilibria can be inversely Pareto-ranked by their amount of television viewing. Arguments are offered to explain why some countries may have settled in a Pareto-inferior equilibrium.

Keywords: Television viewing; Work hours; Relational goods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 H00 J20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-05
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