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American Living Standards : Evidence from Recreational Expenditures

Costa, Dora L. - 1999

recreational goods and created new products that increased demand for recreation, and increased public provision of recreational …

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Aspects of Optimal Unemployment Insurance : Search, Leisure and Capital Market Imperfections

Flemming, J. S. - 1977

The object of this paper is to examine the importance of capital market assumptions. A special continuous-time model is developed in sections II-IV which is applicable to the perfect capital market case. It can also be used when there is no capital market at all (section IV). For 'reasonable'...

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Leisure, Home Production and Work--The Theory of The Allocation of Time Revisited

Gronau, Reuben - 1976

From the theoretical point of view, the justification for aggregating leisure and work at home into one entity, "non-market time" (or "home time") can rest on two assumptions: (a.) the two elements react similarly to changes in the socio-economic environment and, hence, nothing is gained by...

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Why are Average Hours Worked Lower in Richer Countries?

Bick, Alexander - 2019

Why are average hours worked per adult lower in rich countries than in poor countries? Two natural candidates to consider are income effects in preferences, in which leisure becomes more valuable when income rises, and distortionary tax systems, which are more prevalent in richer countries. To...

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Inequality in the Joint Distribution of Consumption and Time Use

Han, Jeehoon - 2018

This paper examines inequality in both leisure and consumption over the past four decades using time use surveys stretching from 1975 to 2016. We show that individual and family characteristics, especially when including work hours, explain most of the long run variation in leisure. We then use...

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Cheap Thrills : the Price of Leisure and the Global Decline in Work Hours

Kopytov, Alexandr - 2020

The real price of recreation goods and services has fallen dramatically over the last century. At the same time, hours … per worker have also been on a steady decline. As recreation goods make leisure time more enjoyable, we investigate if the … recreation prices on hours worked, we use variation in the bundle of recreational goods across demographic groups to instrument …

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Individual and Aggregate Labor Supply With Coordinated Working Times

Rogerson, Richard - 2010

I analyze two extensions to the standard model of life cycle labor supply that feature operative choices along both the intensive and extensive margin. The first assumes that individuals face different continuous wage-hours schedules. The second assumes that all work must be coordinated across...

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Taxes and Time Allocation : Evidence from Single Women

Gelber, Alexander M. - 2009

Hundreds of papers have investigated how incentives and policies affect hours worked in the market. This paper examines how income taxes affect time allocation in the other two-thirds of the day. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1975 to 2004, we analyze the response of single...

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Taxing Leisure Complements

Kaplow, Louis - 2008

Ever since Corlett and Hague (1953), it has been understood that it tends to be optimal on second-best grounds to (relatively) tax complements to leisure and subsidize substitutes because doing so helps to offset the distorting effect of taxation on labor supply. Yet in the context of...

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The Increase in Leisure Inequality

Aguiar, Mark - 2008

This paper examines the changing allocation of time within the United States that has occurred between 1965 and 2003-2005. We find that the time individuals have allocated to leisure has increased in the U.S. for both men and women during this period, with almost the entire gain occurring prior...

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