Work and Television

28 Pages Posted: 14 Oct 2001

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Giacomo Corneo

Free University of Berlin (FUB); Universität Osnabrück - Faculty of Business Administration - Department of Economics; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

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Date Written: December 2002

Abstract

In OECD countries watching television is by far the most time-consuming form of leisure. Surprisingly, television viewing is positively correlated with work hours across countries. A simple model based on the notion of aggregate strategic complementarities in social leisure is developed which explains such a pattern as resulting from multiple equilibria. Workers and capitalists are shown to exhibit opposite preference orderings over equilibria. The relative ability of those two groups in capturing a country's government may explain which equilibrium is selected.

Keywords: Television Viewing, Work Hours, Relational Goods

JEL Classification: J2, H0

Suggested Citation

Corneo, Giacomo, Work and Television (December 2002). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=287317 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.287317

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