Examining the Effect on Time Allocation after the Implementation of Two-day Weekend in Taiwan
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Huang, Yu-Heng
Abstract
Due to rapid economic development and social change in Taiwan, people put more emphasis on work-life balance than before. They value quality life and comfortable lifestyle, therefore the working time and the leisure time allocation becomes more and more important. Taiwan implemented two days off every other weekend for government officials in 1998 hoping to lead the private enterprise to reduce working hour and pay more attention on labor right. The two-day weekend closely carried out in 2001, the similar expectation on government leading the way to guide the industry toward globalization and make progress in industry development.
This research uses the “Survey on Taiwan Social Development Trends-Time Allocation” in 2000 and 2004, conducted by Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan. Begins with the people in each kind of assignment time, we simplify the time use to four categories: Necessary time, market operating time, housework operating time, and leisure time. Based on the sample characteristics, this study divide sample into control group and treated group. In the empirical method, this study adopt Difference-in-Difference to estimate the policy effect on people’s time allocation. Firstly, examine the two-day weekend policy effect and follow by adding explained variables to understand the reason affects the people time allocation. The second stage carries on the Quantile regression analysis, discusses the policy effect on different time allocation.
The empirical result showed that the two-day weekend policy effect is most remarkable in Saturday time allocation. People reduced more than 6 hours market operating time, and transferred the time into in the leisure activity as well as the family life. The policy and the market operating time have a negative correlation, but positive correlated with the leisure time. The home background has a significant influence on time allocation. In other words, time allocation will change whenever there are needs in a taking care of family. The male housework operating time is significantly less than female in Taiwan and male leisure time is significantly more than the female. However, marital status also intensified the time allocation in the sex disparity.
Subjects
週休二日
時間分配
差異中之差異法
SDGs
Type
thesis
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