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

By Daniel S. Hamermesh, Jungmin Lee. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007

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Social commentators have pointed to problems of workers who face time stressan 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 Statesmuch is yuppie kvetch.

Subfields: Accounting, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Affluence, Feelings of Stress, and Well-being (2009, background): “Though complaining about stress may appear to be primarily a habit of the higher-income groups, leading to the perception that it is ‘‘yuppie kvetching’’ (Hamermesh and Lee 2007), and hence neither as real nor as pressing as problems of poverty, there is no denying that perceived stress and time pre”
Reported Levels of Time-based and Strain-based Conflict Between Work and Family Roles in Europe: A Multilevel Approach (2009, background): “The counter-hypothesis is based on the argument developed by Linder (1970) and more recently Hamermesh and Lee (2007) , namely that economic affluence creates time pressure.”
Feeling Rushed: Gendered Time Quality, Work Hours, Nonstandard Work Schedules, and Spousal Crossover (2017, background): “We include measures of educational level and household income because human capital and resources could be related to both time use and subjective time pressure (Gershuny, 2005; Hamermesh & Lee, 2007).”
Mothers’ Time Choices (2007, methodology): “For examples of this research, see Howie et al. (2006), Bianchi et al.”
The causes and consequences of household financial strain: A systematic review (2019, background): “This permits Hamermesh and Lee (2007) to associate subjective reports of financial strain with the Lagrange multiplier.”
Trends in Time Allocation: A Cross-Country Analysis (2012, background): “More importantly, unlike the scarcity of goods, the 24 hours per day time constraint does not relax in a growing economy (Hamermesh and Lee, 2007).”