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Differences in US-German Time-Allocation: Why Do Americans Work Longer Hours than Germans?

Schettkat, Ronald - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

The conventional view is that Americans work longer hours than Germans and other Europeans but when time in household production is included, overall working time is very similar on both sides of the Atlantic. Americans spend more time on market work but German invest more in household...

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Nobody to Play With? The Implications of Leisure Coordination

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Osberg, Lars - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

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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Joint Leisure Before and After Retirement: A Double Regression Discontinuity Approach

Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; van Soest, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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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A Simple Identification Strategy for Gary Becker's Time Allocation Model

Cherchye, Laurens; De Rock, Bram; Vermeulen, Frederic - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

The implementation of Gary Becker's (1965) time allocation model is hampered by the fact that values of the different time uses are usually not observed. In practice, one often assumes that the value of time is uniform across time uses by using market wages. This approach implies a fundamental...

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Married with Children: A Collective Labor Supply Model with Detailed Time Use and Intrahousehold Expenditure Information

Cherchye, Laurens; De Rock, Bram; Vermeulen, Frederic - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

, Chiappori and Meghir (2005). In our model, adults' individual preferences do not only depend on own leisure and individual …

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Regional Unemployment, Gender and Time Allocation of the Unemployed

Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

time devoted to personal care by men and leisure by women. We also find evidence favoring consumption smoothing as the …

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A Gift of Time

Kawaguchi, Daiji; Lee, Jungmin; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

reduction in market time, with the free-up time in Japan reallocated to leisure and personal maintenance, while in Korea the …

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Time Allocation between Work and Family over the Life-Cycle: A Comparative Gender Analysis of Italy, France, Sweden and the United States

Anxo, Dominique; Pailhé, Ariane; SOLAZ, Anne; Flood, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

between market work, domestic work and leisure over the life-cycle. In order to map the lifecycle, we distinguish between nine …

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The Demand for Variety: A Household Production Perspective

Hamermesh, Daniel; Gronau, Reuben - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Economists have devoted substantial attention to firms’ supply of variety, but little to consumers’ demand for variety. Employing the framework of home production, we trace differences in demand to differences in the opportunity costs of activities, which are associated with investments in...

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The Distribution of Total Work in the EU and US

Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Using two time-diary data sets each for Germany, Italy the Netherlands and the U.S. from 1985-2003, we demonstrate that Americans work more than Europeans: 1) in the market; 2) in total (market and home production)-- there is no one-for-one tradeoff across countries in total work; 3) at unusual...

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