On any given weekend, over a fifth of the UK labour force is at work, while more than half of working adults report working at the weekend at least some of the time. This is despite the fact that weekends are conventionally set aside as rest days. The question that this paper addresses is: does this matter? This paper adds to the literature by using two large panel datasets to analyse the effects of weekend working on eight different measures of subjective well-being in the UK. I find that weekend working has a significant impact on how satisfied people are with the amount of leisure time they have, with the results suggesting that avoiding weekend working is equivalent to working six fewer hours per week. Moreover, people working at the weekend report significantly lower happiness yesterday than non-weekend workers. While weekend workers also experience lower levels of life satisfaction than non-weekend workers, this difference disappears when controlling for unobserved heterogeneity between individuals. This suggests that there is no evidence that weekend working causes people to be worse off overall.

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周末在 21 世纪的英国工作：这对工人的福祉有影响吗？

在任何给定的周末，超过五分之一的英国劳动力都在工作，而超过一半的在职成年人报告称至少有一些时间在周末工作。尽管周末通常被留作休息日。本文解决的问题是：这重要吗？本文通过使用两个大型面板数据集来分析周末工作对英国八种不同主观幸福感测量的影响，从而丰富了文献。我发现周末工作对人们对闲暇时间的满意度有显着影响，结果表明避免周末工作相当于每周少工作六个小时。此外，周末工作的人昨天报告的幸福感明显低于非周末工作人员。虽然周末工人的生活满意度也低于非周末工人，但当控制个体之间未观察到的异质性时，这种差异就会消失。这表明没有证据表明周末工作会导致人们整体情况恶化。