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in social and economic policies. This paper combines a household production model introduced by Lau with a Samuelson … household production (the scale economies) of different goods. A simplified version of this model is used to estimate some …Models of household consumption used to estimate the relative needs of people living in different family types need to …
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which the use of training and/or innovation by a workplace increases the likelihood that is has higher labour productivity … than its competitiors, and experiences high labour productivity growth. …
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by a knowledge of the labour content of different items sold to the consumers. Protection of the national market from …
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from the systematic way capital market constraints bind as parental income rises: child labor increases as soon as parental …
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household income function with child labour included as an input. Results using a variety of functional forms and alternative … household farm, as is the case for the vast majority of child workers, rather than for wages. In this study, we estimate a … child labour variables are compared. We conclude that children and adults are perfect labour substitutes and that the …
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Economic research by and large is dominated by a ‘rationality’ paradigm. Economic decision making within this paradigm is viewed as a maximising procedure. In general the latter represents the decision-making as a choice amongst a well defined set of alternatives. In this paper we question...
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If partners derive utility from joint leisure time, it is expected that they will coordinate their work schedules in order to increase the amount of joint leisure time. This paper tries to answer three questions using a new matching procedure where couples are matched to other couples. (1) Do...
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the assumption that there is no within household inequality. In this paper, we show that ignoring consumption inequality … households. Second, the rise in inequality since the 1970s is overstated by two-thirds: within house-hold inequality declined … on wages and hours worked can simultaneously explain virtually all of the decline in within household inequality and a …
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This paper argues that spacing between consecutive births is an important aspect of competition among siblings for survival. Since parents simultaneously choose their desired values of birth spacing and the amount of time and other resources invested in children (which in turn affect child...
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production of a household public good. For the first time in such a framework the sharing rule conditional on public expenditures …This paper analyzes the household decision-making process leading to the allocation of time and consumption in the … family. We estimate, on the British Household Panel Survey, a collective model of demand for leisure generalized to the …
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