leisure and effort at work are complementary. We develop a spatial model of self-employment in which effort at work and …

-efficiency background, where leisure and effort at work are complementary. Using data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) for the … relationship between individual earnings and commuting and leisure. Our empirical results show that employment is mostly … urban wage-efficiency theory. Furthermore, we use Geographical Information System models to show that there is no common …

This paper explores the extent to which workers are willing to trade hours worked for leisure time shared with their … spouse. This parameter is essential to properly assess contemporary trends in the regulation of work and leisure time. We use … but we show that a large fraction of them substitute a day of unpaid leisure for a day of paid work whenever their spouse …

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. -- Time use ; power ; leisure ; institutions …

against the simultaneous relative growth of leisure. -- leisure ; inequality ; income ; wages ; consumption ; time …) 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 …

We construct and estimate by maximum likelihood an equilibrium search model where wages are set by Nash bargaining and … Survey data on accepted wages and employment durations. We show that it captures almost perfectly the joint distribution of … wages and job spells. We find that the rate of learning-by-doing has an important positive effect on aggregate output and a …

(leisure). Our novel design allows to measure whether participants prefer to anticipate or delay gratification, without …-monetary rewards (negative time preferences for leisure). These results cannot be explained by personal timetables and heterogeneous …

theoretical assumptions. -- Mincer equation ; wages ; human capital …