Abstract

We surveyed 1, 500 workers at a large manufacturing firm who had experienced compulsory reductions in hours and earnings to discover their use of time off and their opinion of the company's short-time compensation program. We estimated time use using a three-way split among working for the firm without pay, nonmarket work, and leisure. In an ordered probit equation designed to explain worker opinion, time use emerged as significant, as did gender and marital status.

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