European working time directive, which limits working hours, understood to be one possible area of compromise that will be studied
I pondered as to whether there was a connection between high marginal tax rates and the substitution of market for household working hours as a result. It seems that there is a weak connection, but only a weak one. So does anyone who knows how to do this empirical economics stuff want to pitch in
At the ASI. We really don’t have ever longer working hours you know.
Hmm. Thereport by Unicef, the UN children’s agency, warns that materialism has come to dominate family life in Britain as parents “pointlessly” amass goods for their children to compensate for their long working hours. While parents said they felt compelled into buying more, the children themselves said spending time with their families made them happier.
You know, those ones that rise up as an incantation in Guardian not-think pieces? Analysis of the most recent time use survey for Britain — which includes the unemployed and “homemakers” as well as working couples — shows that women work an average of five hours 55 minutes a day on employment and chores, compared
