Honey, I’ll Be Working Late Tonight: The Effect of Individual Work Routines on Leisure Time Synchronization of Couples

Scheffel, Juliane

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1552342

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“…Being self-employed was negatively related to pure leisure (in line with H2). This suggests that the sporadic work routines and working hour flexibility of self-employed individuals allow them to perform market work at the expense of leisure time, in line with many studies [43,94]. Also, being a laborer was positively related to contaminated leisure.…”

Section: Interindividual Differencessupporting

confidence: 83%

Leisure Quality among German Parents—Exploring Urbanity, Mobility, and Partner Interaction as Determinants

Chidambaram

Scheiner

2021

Sustainability

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Individuals with family obligations concurrently perform unpaid tasks. In particular, parents often multitask childcare during leisure, leading to low-quality leisure. In this study, we explored leisure quality by measuring pure and contaminated (i.e., leisure combined with childcare) leisure for German parents (lone versus partnered) by considering five diverse factors: demographics, job characteristics, spatial and travel attributes, time use perception/preferences, and gendering of partner interactions. We used the cross-sectional German Time Use Survey 2012/13 data and employed regression analysis. Four important findings of the study are: (a) across groups, women have the highest levels of contaminated leisure, while men have the highest levels of pure leisure; (b) for both lone and partnered respondents, spatial attributes (less dense residential areas), travel attributes (paid work trips, unpaid work trips, number of cars, travel by public transport) negatively determine both pure and contaminated leisure; (c) for partnered respondents, driving is positively associated with contaminated leisure; (d) partner’s time spent on childcare negatively affects women’s pure leisure but positively relates to their contaminated leisure, while partner’s time spent on leisure activities positively affects men’s pure leisure and contaminated leisure.

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Section: Interindividual Differencessupporting

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Leisure Quality among German Parents—Exploring Urbanity, Mobility, and Partner Interaction as Determinants

Chidambaram

Scheiner

2021

Sustainability

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“…Fig. 1 Proportion of time spouses spend simultaneously on arts activities on an average day 6 For general leisure, Hallberg (2003) and Scheffel (2010) found, on average, weaker synchronization rates in, respectively, Swedish (about 45 %) and German (about 40 %) couples, and even lower togetherness rates (about 30 % for German couples) (rough figures calculated from their data). 7 Notice also that, in the sample, when a given individual spent time in a given arts activity with his/her spouse, he/she was not involved in another arts activity alone.…”

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Couples’ arts participation: assessing individual and joint time use

Lazzaro

Frateschi

2015

J Cult Econ

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In this paper, we analyse the joint and individual time that Italian couples allocate to the different arts activities and arts practices. The Time Use Survey of Italian households (ISTAT 2002(ISTAT -2003 is used for the first time for this purpose. Despite an unbalanced gender division of paid and unpaid work in this country, women are shown to have a greater predisposition towards engaging in the arts. Altogether, Italian couples spend half of their arts time together. After we apply a Heckman's selection model, results show the overall positive effects of age, education, individual and couple's well-being and weekend participation, and the negative effects of children and residence in southern regions. Yet we demonstrate that the likelihood to participate in the arts and the amount of time allocated to them are determined by different factors. In particular, we highlight some differences and complementarities in partners' personal and mutual influence and respective roles within the couple and the household.

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“…Models of household work coordination (e.g. Hamermesh 2002, Scheffel 2010) extend conventional labour supply models by distinguishing between the utility that each partner in a couple derives from leisure (or non-work) time alone and the utility they derive from joint leisure (non-work time). Couples choose their work times to maximise overall utility and the resulting amount of synchronous work time (h * ) depends on the partners' wage rates (w m , w f ) as well as personal and household characteristics (X): 1…”

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“…Hallberg (2003) uses time-use data to confirm that spouses specifically synchronize leisure time. However, there is also evidence that couples with children de-synchronize their work schedules so that at least one parent is with the child (Hamermesh, 2000;Jenkins and Osberg, 2005;Scheffel, 2010), which usually means less time together with the spouse. Our findings suggest that flexible working increases coordination not because it alleviates childcare requirements of young children, but rather by loosening up broader constraints affecting families' choice of work schedules, for example their lower geographical mobility (Rabe 2011).…”

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Flexible Working and Couples' Coordination of Time Schedules

Bryan

Sevilla

2014

SSRN Journal

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Flexible Working and Couples' Coordination of Time Schedules *Using previously unexploited data on time scheduling in the employment and household contexts, we investigate the effect of flexible working on couples' coordination of their daily work time schedules in the UK. We consider three distinct dimensions of flexible working: flexibility of daily start and finish times (flexitime), flexibility of work times over the year (annualised hours), and generalised control of working hours. We find that in couples with flexitime there is greater spouse synchronization in daily working times by nearly one hour.The effect is driven by couples with dependent children. However, we find the effect in couples with children of any age (under 16), suggesting it does not stem from the childcare requirements of young children. Robustness checks indicate that flexitime is not endogenous, suggesting that an expansion of flexitime would increase couples' work time coordination.There is less evidence that broader control over working hours increases daily synchronous working time and no evidence that annualised hours increase synchronous time on a daily basis. The weaker relationships with daily synchronous time for these two flexibility measures are consistent with their broader scope (control over amount of hours as well as timing) and longer time span.

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Honey, I’ll Be Working Late Tonight: The Effect of Individual Work Routines on Leisure Time Synchronization of Couples

Cited by 5 publications

References 33 publications

Leisure Quality among German Parents—Exploring Urbanity, Mobility, and Partner Interaction as Determinants

Leisure Quality among German Parents—Exploring Urbanity, Mobility, and Partner Interaction as Determinants

Couples’ arts participation: assessing individual and joint time use

Flexible Working and Couples' Coordination of Time Schedules

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