Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 174
Cover Image
Crime and the Timing of Work
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2021
metropolitan areas, and a secular decline in such work since 1973. One explanation is higher and possibly increasing crime in large … areas. I link Current Population Survey data on work timing to FBI crime reports. Neither fact is explained by changes in … nor inter-area differences in crime rates, but higher homicide rates do reduce such work. This reduction implicitly costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217930
Cover Image
Crime and the Timing of Work
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1998
metropolitan areas, and a secular decline in such work since 1973. One explanation is higher and possibly increasing crime in large … areas. I link Current Population Survey data on work timing to FBI crime reports. Neither fact is explained by changes in … nor inter-area differences in crime rates, but higher homicide rates do reduce such work. This reduction implicitly costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472198
Cover Image
Measuring and explaining management practices across firms and countries
Bloom, Nicholas; Van Reenen, John - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003326113
Cover Image
The distribution of total work in the EU and US
Burda, Michael C. (contributor);  … - 2006
Using two time-diary data sets each for Germany, Italy the Netherlands and the U.S. from 1985-2003, we demonstrate that Americans work more than Europeans: 1) in the market; 2) in total (market and home production)-- there is no one-for-one tradeoff across countries in total work; 3) at unusual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003359291
Cover Image
Time to eat : household production under increasing income inequality
Hamermesh, Daniel S. (contributor) - 2006
Eating requires the food materials that make up meals and also time devoted to buying food, preparing meals and eating them, and cleaning up afterwards. Using time-diary and expenditure data for the U.S. for 1985 and 2003, I examine how income and time prices affect time and goods inputs into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278946
Cover Image
Time to eat : household production under increasing income inequality
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003287537
Cover Image
Measuring and explaining management practices across firms and countries
Bloom, Nicholas (contributor); Van Reenen, John (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003313493
Cover Image
Strike three : umpires' demand for discrimination
Parsons, Christopher A.; Sulaeman, Johan; Yates, Michael C. - 2008
We explore how umpires' racial/ethnic preferences are expressed in their evaluation of Major League Baseball pitchers. Controlling for umpire, pitcher, batter and catcher fixed effects and many other factors, strikes are more likely to be called if the umpire and pitcher match race/ethnicity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793465
Cover Image
Unemployment, market work and household production
Burda, Michael C. (contributor);  … - 2009
Using time-diary data from four countries we show that the unemployed spend most of the time not working for pay in additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment duration and the split of time between household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796399
Cover Image
Financial signalling by innovative nascent entrepreneurs
Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - 2009
External finance is central for nascent entrepreneurs, people in the process of starting new ventures. We argue that nascent entrepreneurs use patents and prototypes in order to signal their ability to appropriate the returns from their innovation as well as the projectś feasibility. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809914