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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 …
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Using time-diary data from 25 countries, we demonstrate that there is a negative relationship between real GDP per capita and the female-male difference in total work time per day—the sum of work for pay and work at home. In rich northern countries on four continents there is no...
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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...
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goods that enabled humans to derive more pleasure out of leisure, namely dance and music. I model the incentives to invent …
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endogenous growth. It examines in particular how these effects depend on the specification of the leisure activity and on the …
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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. …
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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. …
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because of stochastic shocks to commuting decisions, which yield a gravity equation for commuting flows. To structurally …
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which firms set efficiency wages to prevent shirking and to compensate workers for commuting. We show that both wages and … unemployment depend on commuting costs, and that housing prices as well as location are based on workers’ wages. We then extend the …
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