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Title: Leisure Inequality: The Role of Occupational Intensity and Context

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Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: Substantial gaps in knowledge about the mechanisms that link gender and educational attainment with leisure inequalities remain. Using data from the American Time Use Survey, Metabolic Equivalent Values (METs), and O*NET, we investigate influences of a broad array of occupation and work environment measures on time spent in social, active, and passive leisure. Preliminary results indicate employment in a sales/service occupation, compared with professional occupations, is associated with increased sedentary leisure. Natural and transportation occupations, relative to professional, was not associated with leisure differences, despite the pervasive differences in the physical and social-psychological demands and rewards of these jobs. Professional and service occupations are both relatively sedentary, but the emotional labor is higher and autonomy, flexibility, and rewards of many sales & service jobs much lower. These factors may account for the difference in time spent in sedentary leisure, a possibility we explore with the merged O*NET data.

Url: https://paa.confex.com/paa/2018/mediafile/ExtendedAbstract/Paper23404/Pepin%26Sayer_PAA2018.pdf

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Authors: Pepin, Joanna, R; Sayer, Liana, C

Conference Name: PAA 2018

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Data Collections: IPUMS Time Use - ATUS

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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