闲暇时间与经济增长--兼对中国数据的实证检验

文章放宽了国外对闲暇研究的假设条件,突出考虑闲暇时间对人力资本形成的作用和对技术进步的外部性,将闲暇时间引入增长模型研究了闲暇与增长的动态关系,并对中国1981～2003年的经济数据进行了实证检验.实证检验结果表明,健康的闲暇活动能促进经济增长,但工业化阶段居民较低的闲暇偏好会拉低经济增长率,因此总体上闲暇时间对我国经济增长展现出微小的负作用.为此文章提出,应在加大精神文明建设力度的同时,合理安排契合本国经济发展阶段的公休假制度.

Leisure Time and Economic Growth:--Evidence from the Chinese Data

Neoclassical and endogennous economic growth models ignore the impact of leisure time on the growth, and assume that leisure time has no externity and influence on the marginal utility of education, which are ineonsistant with the reality. This paper takes the externality and influence in- to account and constructs a model to investigate the relationship between leisure time and the growth. At last, it uses the Chinese data to show how leisure time explains the fluctuation of growth rate.