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observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about …
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externalities in leisure. In this study, we investigate how retirement affects the hours of leisure together of individuals in a … effect of retirement on hours of leisure separate and together of individuals in a couple. We find that the retirement … retirement of the husband significantly increases own hours of leisure of the husband but it does not increase joint leisure …
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likely to decrease the risk of divorce. All such activities, however, are characterized by gender role bias through, for …
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Prescott (2004) argues that Europeans work much less than Americans because of higher taxes and that they would gain significantly by charging US taxes and working as much as Americans. I argue that the opposite may be true and that Americans work more than Europeans due to a coordination...
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allow for behavioral 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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utility derived from leisure time often benefits from the presence of companionable others inside and outside the household … propensities to engage in associative activity depend on the availability of Suitable Leisure Companions outside the household. Our …
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By examples this study illustrates that with the right data the analysis of time use, labor supply and leisure can and …' consumption of leisure one must study its temporal distribution, not how it is integrated over some long interval. Using U.S. data …
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home production and labor supply. Time costs are computed in terms of hours of foregone leisure. The model accounts for … selection into full-time employment and controls for use of hired childcare workers. We find that the foregone leisure cost of …
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) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure ('pure leisure', 'co-present leisure' and … 'leisure fragmentation') to show that the relative growth in leisure time enjoyed by less-educated individuals documented in … previous studies has been accompanied by a relative decrease in the quality of that leisure time. These results are not driven …
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posit that leisure time will be more sensitive to power considerations than housework time which may be more influenced by … supportive of these hypotheses, with leisure time on non-work days in the US being particularly responsive to economic power. In … enjoy more leisure time than would be suggested by their economic power alone. …
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