Working Papers, Department of Economics, Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus
No 10-4:
Work Hours, Social Value of Leisure and Globalisation
Jørgen Drud Hansen ()
, Hassan Molana, Catia Montagna and Jørgen Ulff-Møller Nielsen ()
Abstract: We examine how openness interacts with the coordination of
consumption-leisure decisions in determining the equilibrium working hours
and wage rate when there are leisure externalities (e.g., due to social
interactions). The latter are modelled by allowing a workers marginal
utility of leisure to be increasing in the leisure time taken by other
workers. Coordination takes the form of internalising the leisure
externality and other relevant constraints (e.g., labour demand). The
extent of openness is measured by the degree of capital mobility. We find
that: coordination lowers equilibrium work hours and raises the wage rate;
there is a U-shaped (inverse-U-shaped) relationship between work hours
(wages) and the degree of coordination; coordination is welfare improving;
and, the gap between the coordinated and uncoordinated work hours (and the
corresponding wage rates) is affected by the extent and nature of
openness.
Keywords: coordination; corporatism; openness; capital mobility; social multiplier; welfare; work hours; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: F20; J20; J50; (follow links to similar papers)
32 pages, January 1, 2010
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