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Title: Work and Television

Author(s): Giacomo Corneo

Publication Date: May 2002

Keyword(s): relational goods, television viewing and work hours

Programme Area(s): Labour Economics and Public Economics

Abstract: Nowadays, people in OECD countries spend about as much time watching television as earning a living. In this Paper I report a puzzling fact about those time uses: television viewing and work hours are positively correlated across countries. A simple model based on complementarities in the organization of free time is then developed that explains such a pattern as resulting from multiple equilibria. All equilibria can be inversely Pareto-ranked by their amount of television viewing. Arguments are offered to explain why some countries may have settled in a Pareto-inferior equilibrium.

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Corneo, G. 2002. 'Work and Television'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=3373