It's obvious to say the unemployed population has more time on their hands because they're not spending their days in offices. The American Time Use Survey asked thousands of employed and unemployed people to learn more about the differences in time spent by these two groups. Below are some of the survey's conclusions.
- On an average weekday, someone who's unemployed sleeps an hour more than an employed individual.
- An unemployed person spends two hours each day (at least twice as much time as someone with a job) doing house or yard work.
- Someone who's unemployed spends an additional hour in the classroom and 70 more minutes watching TV than someone who's employed.
Economists use the survey to try and value the time of those without a paycheck, and Daniel S. Hamermesh, an economics professor at the University of Texas at Austin commented, "If all we were doing is substituting production at home for production in the marketplace, then maybe unemployment wouldn't be so bad."
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Two hours of housework? Not my unemployed husband! more like 8 hours of playstation.
1i guess in general that could be true but i think that it also depends on where people are living too. my husband hasn't been employed for a bit and i don't know what he does all day but i can certainly say that it's not 2 more hours of yard work or anything like that.
2^^
3oops ^^ x2
4These are the two things I'd do more of if I didn't have a job.
5Hmm. My boyfriend definitely sleeps way more than an hour a day more than I do.
I'm pretty sure that instead of those two hours of housework, he spends time on Hulu finding new shows to get me addicted to. (It's not fair! He has 40 hours more of TV viewing time than I do each week!)
6@Caterpillar, you're right on. Hubby does do a little more housework than when he was employed but it's probably only 20 minutes a day...the rest is spent playing videogames and whatnot.
7I work part time, so on my days off I definitely do more like 4-5 hours of housework because my husband doesn't do ANY of it. It's kind of our little trade-off...I like a clean house and don't mind doing it and he detests cleaning but works at the office a lot.
8Aww. I hope I didn't accidentally leave this open! I came home to an immaculate house today!
9i just started working at home and i have been thinking about this. I actually do more housework now that I don't leave home to work. I do chores when I need to stretch my legs, take a 5 min. break, etc.
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