期刊名称：Electronic International Journal of Time Use Research
电子版ISSN：1860-9937
出版年度：2009
卷号：6
期号：1
页码：130-166
出版社：University of Lueneburg
摘要：This paper argues that public holidays facilitate the co-ordination of leisure time but do not constrain the annual amount of leisure. Public holidays therefore have benefits both in the utility of leisure on holidays and (by enabling people to maintain social contacts more easily) in increasing the utility of leisure on normal weekdays and weekends. The paper uses the variation in public holidays across German L.nder based on more than 37.000 individual diary data of the actual German Time Use Survey of 2001-02 to illustrate the positive association between more public holidays and social life on normal weekdays and weekends. These benefits are additional to the other, direct benefits of public holidays.
关键词：Public holidays; social contacts; social leisure time; time allocation; time use diaries; German;Time Budget Survey 2001/02D
