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Leisure Inequality in the United States: 1965-2003

Sevilla, Almudena; Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Gershuny, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper exploits the complex sequential structure of the diary data in the American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS) 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...

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Is the Persistent Gender Gap in Income and Wages Due to Unequal Family Responsibilities?

Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per; Lindahl, Erica - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

born, the male-female gender gaps in income and wages have increased with 35 and 10 percentage points, respectively. In …We compare the income and wage trajectories of women in relation to their male partners before and after parenthood … line with a collective labor supply model, the magnitude of these effects depends on relative incomes or wages within the …

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Persistencies in the Labour Market

Frijters, Paul; Lindeboom, Maarten; den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Using longitudinal income-tax registers, we study how past labour market outcomes affect current labour market … welfare/non-participation. Our main finding is that after longer periods of employment with high income, individuals …

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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors

Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

outcomes such as medical care costs, educational attainment, employment, wages, and crime. It also reviews the research on …

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Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Competitive Pressure

Ghosh, Arghya; Kato, Takao; Morita, Hodaka - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental improvements and modifications made upon the...

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Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income … maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …

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Life Satisfaction, Income and Personality

Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We use personality traits to better understand the relationship between income and life satisfaction. Personality … traits mediate the effect of income on life satisfaction. The effect of neuroticism, which measures sensitivity to threat and … usually observed concavity of the relationship: individuals with a higher neuroticism score enjoy extra income more than those …

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Adaptation to Poverty in Long-Run Panel Data

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of...

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Do Entrepreneurs Really Earn Less?

Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

entrance degree but no further professional qualification as well as for those who were in the upper percentiles of the income …

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Showing Off to the New Neighbors? Income, Socioeconomic Status and Consumption Patterns of Internal Migrants

Danzer, Alexander M.; Dietz, Barbara; Gatskova, Ksenia; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of Kazakhstan we find that internal migrants earn an income and status …

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