Why do workers buy lottery tickets? Una nota sobre juegos de azar, contratos de trabajo y la utilidad del ocio
When asked why they buy lotteries tickets, many people say that if they were to win, they would quit their jobs and enjoy life with the money.Curiously enough, the value of quitting the job, that is the gains of additional free time, has not been taken into account as a reason to understand ...
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Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política (IIEP UBA-CONICET)
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://ojs.economicas.uba.ar/DT-IIEP/article/view/2614 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=dociiep&d=2614_oai |
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| Sumario: | When asked why they buy lotteries tickets, many people say that if they were to win, they would quit their jobs and enjoy life with the money.Curiously enough, the value of quitting the job, that is the gains of additional free time, has not been taken into account as a reason to understand gambling. That is, the utility of leisure has not been paid the attention it deserves to explain why people bet and the focus has always been put only on the utility of wealth or income. It will be shown here that a combination of value of leisure and inflexibility of (voluntary) labour contractscan be a sufficient condition to explain the preference of workers for gambling. |
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