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Has leisure increased over the last century? Standard measures of hours worked suggest that it has. In this paper, we … develop a comprehensive measure of non-leisure hours that includes market work, home production, commuting and schooling for …. Finally, leisure per capita is approximately the same now as it was in 1900 …
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Has leisure increased over the last century? Standard measures of hours worked suggest that it has. In this paper, we … develop a comprehensive measure of non-leisure hours that includes market work, home production, commuting and schooling for …. Finally, leisure per capita is approximately the same now as it was in 1900 …
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This paper explores the extent to which workers are willing to trade hours worked for leisure time shared with their … spouse. This parameter is essential to properly assess contemporary trends in the regulation of work and leisure time. We use … but we show that a large fraction of them substitute a day of unpaid leisure for a day of paid work whenever their spouse …
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I show that recreation has become much more egalitarian over the last hundred years by estimating recreational expenditure elasticities in 1888-1890, 1917-1919, 1935-1936, 1972-1973, and 1991. I find that expenditure elasticities have fallen from around two at the beginning of the century to...
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I show that recreation has become much more egalitarian over the last hundred years by estimating recreational expenditure elasticities in 1888-1890, 1917-1919, 1935-1936, 1972-1973, and 1991. I find that expenditure elasticities have fallen from around two at the beginning of the century to...
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-wide influence on leisure patterns because of a social multiplier where the returns to leisure increase as more people are taking …
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-wide influence on leisure patterns because of a social multiplier where the returns to leisure increase as more people are taking …
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-wide influence on leisure patterns because of a social multiplier where the returns to leisure increase as more people are taking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014065496