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Keeping in Touch: A Benefit of Public Holidays

Authors: Merz, Joachim; Osberg, Lars;

Keeping in Touch: A Benefit of Public Holidays

Abstract

This paper argues that public holidays facilitate the co-ordination of leisure time but do not constrain the annual amount of leisure. Public holidays therefore have benefits both in the utility of leisure on holidays and (by enabling people to maintain social contacts more easily) in increasing the utility of leisure on normal weekdays and weekends. The paper uses the variation (13 to 17) in public holidays across German Länder and the German Time Use Survey of 2001-02 to show that public holidays have beneficial impacts on social life on normal weekdays and weekends. Since these benefits are additional to the other benefits of holidays, it suggests that there is a case to be made for more public holidays.

Diese Studie argumentiert, dass Feiertage die Koordination von Freizeit fördern nicht aber den jährlichen Umfang von Freizeit ändern. Feiertage bringen deshalb einen Gewinn einerseits an Freizeitnutzen an Feiertagen und - indem sie leichter soziale Kontakte ermöglichen - andererseits an Freizeitnutzen an normalen Wochentagen und Wochenenden. Die Studie nutzt die Variation (13 bis 17) an Feiertagen in den verschiedenen Bundesländern auf der Basis der deutschen Zeitbudgetstudie 2001-02 um zu zeigen, dass Feiertage einen Gewinn bezüglich des sozialen Lebens an normalen Wochentagen und Wochenenden erbringen. Da dieser Gewinn zusätzlich zum Nutzen aus Feiertagen ist, spricht dies für vermehrte Feiertage.

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Keywords

Social and Economic Stratification, /dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/557389186; name=Economics, social leisure time, J22, H40 - General, Freizeit, Zeittagebücher, Zeitverwendung, Soziale Beziehungen, time use dairies, Z13 - Economic Sociology, I31, Freizeitverhalten, Economic Anthropology, Deutschland, Public holidays, ddc:330, Well-Being, I31 - General Welfare, time allocation, soziale Kontakte, time use diaries, social contacts, German Time Budget Survey 2001/02, J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply, soziale Freizeit, Zeitallokation, Zeitbudgetforschung, Z13, Deutsche Zeitbudgeterhebung 2001/02, Public holidays, social contacts, social leisure time, time allocation, time use diaries, German Time Budget Survey 2001/02, German Budget Survey 2001/02, /dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/gender_and diversity; name=Gender and Diversity, Feiertage, public holidays, public holidays, social contacts, social leisure time, time allocation, time use diaries, H40, jel: jel:Z13, jel: jel:H40, jel: jel:J22, jel: jel:I31

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