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Work significantly affects human life and health. Overworking may decrease the quality of life and cause direct economic losses. Technological innovations encourage modernization of firms' capital and improve labor productivity in the workplace. The paper investigates the optimal individual...
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with it higher income, independence and bargaining power. Yet a decrease in women's subjective well-being over previous … decades has been documented, perhaps due to a Second Shift effect where women work more but still bear the brunt of housework … men and women, but different effects on satisfaction with work-life balance. This suggests that fathers' life satisfaction …
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with it higher income, independence and bargaining power. Yet a decrease in women's subjective well-being over previous … decades has been documented, perhaps due to a Second Shift effect where women work more but still bear the brunt of housework … men and women, but different effects on satisfaction with work-life balance. This suggests that fathers' life satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784109
the complementarity between the three components of longevity on welfare and economic stability. At the steady state, we … show that an appropriate fiscal policy may enhance welfare. However, when pollution is heavily harmful for longevity, the … design of the public policy that may comply with the dynamic and welfare objectives. …
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This paper addresses the two-way implication between punctuality level of public transport and commuter behavior. We consider a modal competition between public transport and an alternative mode. Commuters may choose different strategies to minimize their journey cost. In particular, when the...
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This paper examines the effects of tourism on labor employment, capital accumulation and resident welfare for a small … capital intensive, the fall in capital would not be so severe and the expansion of tourism improves welfare. However, when the … traded sector is strongly capital intensive, the fall in capital can be a dominant factor to lower welfare. This immiserizing …
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toughening of the antitrust policy is likely to result in more agglomeration and may reduce world welfare. The antitrust policy … is more likely to be welfare improving when market integration progresses. …
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This paper uses a representative sample of individuals on France's main welfare program (the Revenu Minimum d …'Insertion, or RMI) to estimate monetary incentives for employment among welfare recipients. Based on the estimated joint … both men and women usually below one. Conditional on these elasticities, simulations indicate that existing policies …
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Most welfare programs generate high marginal tax rates on labor income. This paper uses a representative sample of … individuals on France's main welfare program (the Revenu Minimum d'Insertion, or RMI) to estimate monetary gains to employment for … welfare recipients. This is based on the distribution of potential monthly earnings faced by each individual, as inferred from …
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Nel passaggio dal capitalismo industriale al capitalismo cognit ivo, il rapporto capitale/ lavoro é segnato da una trasformazione radicale. Essa riguarda in maniera indissociabile il modo di produrre, la composizione di classe sulla quale poggia la valorizzazione del capitale ed infine le forme...
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