The Price of Leisure :An Economic Analysis of the Demand for Leisure Time

Publication subTitle :An Economic Analysis of the Demand for Leisure Time

Author: Owen; John D.  

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press‎

Publication year: 1970

E-ISBN: 9780773593572

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780773500945

Subject: F0 Economics

Keyword: 经济学

Language: ENG

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Chapter

1.2 What Is `Leisure Time'?

1.3 A Possible Contradiction Between the Concept of the Income-Leisure Choice and That of Leisure as a Consumer Good

1.4 The Demand for Leisure Time: Labor Force Participation, Hours of Work, Vacations and Holidays

1.5 Institutions of Hours Determination in the United States

2. AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE DEMAND FOR LEISURE TIME

2.1 The Demand for Leisure Time and the Wage Rate

2.2 The Price of Leisure: The Applicability of Consumer Demand Analysis to the Demand for Leisure Time

2.3 The Demand for Recreation and the Demand for Leisure Time

2.4 Working Conditions and the Demand for Leisure Time

2.5 Variable Returns to Hours of Work: A Statement of the Problem

2.6 Output-Reducing Fatigue and the Demand for Leisure Time

2.7 Productive Consumption and the Demand for Leisure Time

2.8 Education and the Demand for Leisure Time

2.9 Commuting and Leisure Time

2.10 Economies of Scale in Work and Government Finance

2.11 Hours of Work and Unemployment

2.12 The Analysis of the Demand for Leisure Time: Some Implications for Empirical Research

3. THE DEMAND FOR LEISURE TIME: THE DATA

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Hours Worked per Week, 1900-1961

3.3 Gains in Vacations and Holidays Since 1940

3.4 Longer Vacations or Shorter Hours? An Analysis

3.5 Correction of Distortions Introduced into the Leisure Time Measure by Increased Employment of Women and Students

3.6 Conclusions

3.7 Sources of Hours Data

4. COMMERCIAL RECREATION IN THE UNITED STATES: 1900-1961

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Commercial Recreation and Leisure Time

4.3 Aggregate Commercial Recreation: Expenditures and Prices, 1900-1961

4.4 The Development of the Major Commercial Recreation Industries, 1900-1961

4.5 Conclusions

4.6 Sources of Recreation Data

5. EMPIRICAL MODELS AND SOME STATISTICAL RESULTS

5.1 The Employee Demand for Leisure Time

5.2 The Employer Demand for Hours of Work

5.3 Two-Equation Models of Leisure Time

5.4 The Demand for Market Recreation and the Demand for Leisure Time

5.5 The Demand for Leisure Activity

5.6 The EIasticity of Substitution Between Leisure Time and Market Recreation

5.7 A Comparison of Some Empirical Results of the Leisure Activity, Leisure Time, and Market Recreation Analyses

5.8 Some General Empirical Conclusions and Suggestions for Further Research

APPENDIX: MATHEMATICAL NOTES

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