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Employment and Distributional Effects of Restricting Working Time
Marimon, Ramon; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
We study the emplyment and distributional effects of regulating (reducing) working time in a general equilibrium model with search-matching frictions. Job creation entails some fixed costs, but existing jobs are subject to diminishing returns. We characterize the equilibrium in the de-regulated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067610
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Hobbies, Skills and Incentives to Work: The Happy Gardener and the Wealthy Golfer
Sällström, Susanna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
goods that enabled humans to derive more pleasure out of leisure, namely dance and music. I model the incentives to invent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504741
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On the Taxation of Human and Physical Capital in Models of Endogenous Growth
Milesi-Ferretti, Gian Maria; Roubini, Nouriel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
endogenous growth. It examines in particular how these effects depend on the specification of the leisure activity and on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114284
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Are Shirking and Leisure Substitutable? An Empirical Test of Efficiency Wages based on Urban Economic Theory
Ross, Stephen L.; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
allow for behavioural substitution between leisure time at home and effort at work. In equilibrium, residing at a location … with a long commute affects the time available for leisure at home and therefore affects the trade-off between effort at … wages, which are both consistent with shirking and leisure being substitutable. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662249
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Are Shirking and Leisure Substitutable? An Empirical Test of Efficiency Wages based on Urban Economic Theory
Ross, Stephen L.; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
allow for behavioural substitution between leisure time at home and effort at work. In equilibrium, residing at a location … with a long commute affects the time available for leisure at home and therefore affects the trade-off between effort at … wages, which are both consistent with shirking and leisure being substitutable. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005788928
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Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production
Burda, Michael C; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment … duration and the split of time between household production and leisure. U.S. data for 2003-2006 show that almost none of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123843
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Children, Kitchen, Church: Does Ethnicity Matter?
Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labour supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use Survey. Given the low labour force participation of females...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504523
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What Do CEOs Do?
Bandiera, Oriana; Guiso, Luigi; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We develop a methodology to collect and analyze data on CEOs' time use. The idea - sketched out in a simple theoretical set-up - is that CEO time is a scarce resource and its allocation can help us identify the firm's priorities as well as the presence of governance issues. We follow 94 CEOs of...
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Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work
Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
professional CEOs are larger when the opportunity cost of leisure is lower. We interpret these results as evidence of differences … in preferences for leisure across CEOs rather than optimal responses to organizational differences correlated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165670
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The Allocation of Time in Sleep: a Social Network Model with Sampled Data
Liu, Xiaodong; Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
We analyze peer e¤ects in sleeping behavior using a representative sample of U.S. teenagers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health. The sampling design of the survey causes the conventional 2SLS estimator to be inconsistent. We extend the NLS estimator in Wang and Lee...
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