Demographic Techniques
Time Use
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22367440 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sara Raley (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosd024 |
| OpenAlex | W4239013729 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Time is a scarce, some would say increasingly scarce, resource. However, unlike other resources, time is equally distributed because everyone faces the same 24‐hour constraint as they make decisions about how to allocate their limited time to various and often competing commitments. Despite its apparent equality, time allocation is a major indicator of social differentiation and stratification. For example, people with high levels of human capital may be better able to afford to trade paid work time for leisure time as well as purchase time‐saving goods and services (such as prepared meals and house cleaning) than people with lower levels of human capital
Business · Economic growth · Economics · Human capital · Human resources · Labour economics · Leisure time · Microeconomics · Scarcity · Time allocation · Time budget · Time constraint · Work time · Engineering · Work-Family Balance Challenges · Ecology
| Highly cited | No |
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