Time Use - Research, Data and Policy

Time is the encompassing dimension and valuable resource of the various personal activities. Time is imprinting our living plans, our everyday behaviour and the communication with each other. This book is describing and analyzing time use in important living domains. From an economic and social sciences perspective an actual survey is provided on national and international research, their data and their implications for a targeted economic and social policy. This book is the conference volume of an international conference held together with the German Statistical Office at the University of Lüneburg, Germany.
Content: formal and informal economy, new working hours arrangements, working hour tension, freelance and contract working, paid and unpaid labour supply, women and the family, shadow economy, valueing of household production, welfare analyses of extended income, temporal obligations, time poverty, commuting and travel, microeconomics and labour supply modelling, panelanalyses, microsimulation of tax and benefit changings, international time use data, national accounts and time budgets, leisure, internet-based marketing, sustainable consumption and environmental protection, volunteers and the welfare state ...