scholarly journals Time Use, Unemployment, and Well-Being: An Empirical Analysis Using British Time-Use Data

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thi Truong An Hoang ◽  
Andreas Knabe
Keyword(s):  
Time Use ◽  
Weighted Average ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Time Use Survey ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Affective Dimensions

Abstract We use nationally representative data from the UK Time-Use Survey 2014/2015 to investigate how a person’s employment status is related to time use and cognitive and affective dimensions of subjective well-being. We do not find clear indications that employed and unemployed persons experience different average levels of emotional well-being when they engage in the same kinds of activities. For the employed, working belongs to one of the least enjoyable activities of their day. They also spend a large share of their time at work and on work-related activities. The unemployed, instead, spend more time on leisure and more enjoyable activities. When looking at duration-weighted average affective well-being over the entire waking time of the day, the unemployed experience, on average, more enjoyment than the employed. For the employed, the more hours they have to work on a specific day, the lower the average enjoyment they experience on that day. Differentiating the analyses by weekdays and weekends supports the finding that being able to freely allocate one’s non-work time is associated with higher levels of affective well-being. In line with previous studies on cognitive well-being, we find that the unemployed report substantially lower levels of life satisfaction than the employed.

scholarly journals From Me to You: Time Together and Subjective Well-Being in the UK

Sociology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 003803852110331
Author(s):  
Giacomo Vagni
Keyword(s):  
Time Use ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Family Time ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Time Use Survey ◽  
The Uk

Time together as a family is a crucial dimension of family life. However, its impact on personal happiness is not well understood. I use the United Kingdom Time Use Survey 2014–2015 to study how time spent with partners and children affects daily subjective well-being. Overall, I find that family time, couple time, and time alone with children contributes significantly to mothers’ and fathers’ well-being. I show that the activities that families share together mediate an important part of the enjoyment of time together but do not entirely explain this association. This suggests that beyond what families do together, families enjoy being together. I find that fathers enjoy family time more than mothers do. I demonstrate that the unequal division of labour during family time explains this discrepancy. I conclude by discussing the recent transformations of intimate relationships.

scholarly journals Reliability, Validity, and Variability of the Subjective Well-Being Questions in the 2010 American Time Use Survey

2015 ◽  
Vol 126 (3) ◽  
pp. 1355-1373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoonjoo Lee ◽  
Sandra L. Hofferth ◽  
Sarah M. Flood ◽  
Kimberly Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Time Use ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
American Time Use Survey ◽  
Time Use Survey

scholarly journals The varying impacts of COVID-19 and its related measures in the UK: A year in review

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. e0257286
Author(s):  
Muzhi Zhou ◽  
Man-Yee Kan
Keyword(s):  
Time Use ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Work Time ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Distress Level ◽  
Childcare Time ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Uk

We examine how the earnings, time use, and subjective wellbeing of different social groups changed at different stages/waves of the pandemic in the United Kingdom (UK). We analyze longitudinal data from the latest UK Household Longitudinal Survey (UKHLS) COVID study and the earlier waves of the UKHLS to investigate within-individual changes in labor income, paid work time, housework time, childcare time, and distress level during the three lockdown periods and the easing period between them (from April 2020 to late March 2021). We find that as the pandemic developed, COVID-19 and its related lockdown measures in the UK had unequal and varying impacts on people’s income, time use, and subjective well-being based on their gender, ethnicity, and educational level. In conclusion, the extent of the impacts of COVID-19 and COVID-induced measures as well as the speed at which these impacts developed, varied across social groups with different types of vulnerabilities.

scholarly journals LIFE SATISFACTION, PRO-ACTIVITY AND EMPLOYMENT

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
ALPASLAN AKAY ◽  
GOKHAN KARABULUT ◽  
LEVENT YILMAZ
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Longitudinal Data ◽  
Time Use ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Active Time ◽  
Individual Personality ◽  
The Unemployed

Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper investigates how pro-active time-use (e.g., in sports/arts/socializing) relates to subjective well-being of the unemployed and their probability of finding a new job. Allowing for a variety of socio-demographic and -economic observed characteristics, we find that pro-activity is negatively associated with the well-being loss upon unemployment. That is, the negative unemployment shock on their well-being is mitigated through various stress-reducing activities including, in particular, art participation, socializing, going on trips and visiting a church. We also find that the probability of returning to the labor market later is positively associated with pro-activity during the unemployment period. The results are robust to various checks including estimators, measures and individual personality characteristics which can correlate with time-use activities.

scholarly journals How Does the Care of the Disabled Elderly Affect the Caregiver’s Subjective Well-being?evidence From China Time Use Survey

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huan Wang ◽  
Xi Guo
Keyword(s):  
Time Use ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Leisure Activity ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Disabled Elderly ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Time Use Survey

Abstract The main goal of this research is to find a way to maintain the subjective well-being of caregivers of the disabled elderly. Ensuring proper leisure activity may become the key to solving this problem. Relying on data from the 2017 China Time Use Survey, this study finds that the care activities for the disabled elderly will reduce the caregivers’ subjective well-being through the squeeze of the caregivers’ leisure activities from the point of view of time use, and the caregivers with different individual characteristics have different impacts on the subjective well-being of feeling disabled elderly care activities. Therefore, from the perspective of time utilization, it is believed that social institutions take care of the disabled elderly, caregivers' housework activities, and improve the flexible working system, which have a positive effect on maintaining the caregivers' subjective well-being.

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