abstract: 'This article offers a conceptual model of how resources, including time

  and human and social capital, interact with responsibilities, including

  personal care, childcare and other unpaid work, to produce a range of

  feasible time allocations. Each allocation generates a combination of

  disposable income and free time. This set of feasible income-time

  combinations provides a measure of the individual''s capability set or

  his/her substantive freedom. The approach is illustrated empirically

  with data and simulations based on the UK Time Use Survey 2000. The

  results show that having low educational qualifications (reflecting

  limited command over resources), having more or younger children

  (implying greater caring responsibilities), being single and being

  disabled (both of which adversely affect the rate at which resources can

  be converted into valuable outcomes) are each independently associated

  with having a small capability set, defined in terms of the level and

  range of combinations of disposable income and free time that can be

  achieved. The paper concludes that the range of combinations of

  disposable income and free time that a person can achieve provides a

  useful metric for assessing inequality in individuals'' substantive

  freedom to pursue their goals in life - a key target for liberal

  egalitarians.'
affiliation: 'Burchardt, T (Corresponding Author), London Sch Econ, Ctr Anal Social
  Exclus, Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE, England.

  Burchardt, Tania, London Sch Econ, Ctr Anal Social Exclus, London WC2A 2AE, England.

  Burchardt, Tania, London Sch Econ, Dept Social Policy, London WC2A 2AE, England.'
author: Burchardt, Tania
author-email: t.burchardt@lse.ac.uk
author_list:
- family: Burchardt
  given: Tania
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1177/0961463X10369754
eissn: 1461-7463
files: []
issn: 0961-463X
journal: TIME \& SOCIETY
keywords: 'capability approach; discretionary time; income; poverty; time use

  survey'
keywords-plus: POVERTY; WORK; ALLOCATION; DIVISION; FAMILIES; WELFARE; MONEY
language: English
month: NOV
number: '3'
number-of-cited-references: '45'
pages: 318-344
papis_id: a53aebc85716b5e1080582baef6cfefd
ref: Burchardt2010timeincome
times-cited: '14'
title: 'Time, income and substantive freedom: A capability approach'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000284753700003
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '19'
volume: '19'
web-of-science-categories: Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
year: '2010'