{"id":118837,"date":"2017-07-04T10:10:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T08:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=118837"},"modified":"2017-07-04T12:14:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T10:14:46","slug":"video-games-main-reason-young-men-are-working-fewer-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/118837-video-games-main-reason-young-men-are-working-fewer-hours","title":{"rendered":"Video games the main reason young men are working fewer hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w23552\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research paper<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0by the American National Bureau of Economic Research suggests that video games are a primary cause of young men working fewer hours.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers found that American men aged 31-55 were working 163 hours a year less than the same age group in 2000, and men 21-30 were working 203 fewer hours a year.<\/p>\n<p>The paper argues that since 2004, video games have been a major factor in reducing the amount of work done by young men.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that young men\u2019s leisure time grew by 2.3 hours a week from 2004 to 2015, and the majority of that increase was spent playing video games.<\/p>\n<p>Other groups such as older men and young women saw smaller growth in leisure time, with far less of that time spent playing video games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/112289-gamer-played-17-hours-of-overwatch-a-day-to-hit-max-level.html\"><strong>Gamer played 17 hours of Overwatch a day to hit max level<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research paper\u00a0by the American National Bureau of Economic Research suggests that video games are a primary cause of young men working fewer hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":78348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22789],"class_list":["post-118837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-working"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}