Stressed Out on Four Continents: Time Crunch or Yuppie Kvetch?

A-Tier
Journal: Review of Economics and Statistics
Year: 2007
Volume: 89
Issue: 2
Pages: 374-383

Score contribution per author:

2.011 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 2.0x A-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

Social commentators have pointed to problems of workers who face "time stress"-an absence of sufficient time to accomplish all their tasks. An economic theory views time stress as reflecting how tightly the time constraint binds households. Time stress will be more prevalent in households with higher full earnings and whose members work longer in the market or on "required" homework. Evidence from Australia (2001), Germany (2002), the United States (2003), and Korea (1999) corroborates the theory. Adults in households with higher earnings perceive more time stress for the same amount of time spent in market work and household work. The importance of higher full earnings in generating time stress is not small, particularly in the United States-much is "yuppie kvetch." Copyright by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:tpr:restat:v:89:y:2007:i:2:p:374-383
Journal Field
General
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-25