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Not working at work : loafing, unemployment and labor productivity

Burda, Michael C.; Genadek, Katie R.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015

Using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) 2003-12, we estimate time spent by workers in non-work while on the job. Non-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While the average time spent by workers in non-work conditional on any positive non-work rises...

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Telework and time use in the United States

Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2020

Remote work is rapidly increasing in the United States. Using data on full-time wage and salary workers from the 2017–2018 American Time Use Survey Leave and Job Flexibilities Module, this paper examines the characteristics of teleworkers, the effects of teleworking on wages, and differences...

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Racial/ethnic differences in non-work at work

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Genadek, Katie R.; Burda, Michael C. - 2017

Evidence from the American Time Use Survey 2003-12 suggests the existence of small but statistically significant racial/ethnic differences in time spent not working at the workplace. Minorities, especially men, spend a greater fraction of their workdays not working than do white non-Hispanics....

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Institutions, social norms, and bargaining power : an analysis of individual leisure time in couple households

Gupta, Nabanita Datta (contributor); … - 2008

We exploit time use data from Denmark and the United States to examine the impact institutions and social norms have on individuals' bargaining power within a household, hypothesizing that the more generous social welfare system and more egalitarian social norms in Denmark will mitigate the...

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Leisure inequality in the United States : 1965 - 2003

Sevilla, Almudena; Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Gershuny, … - 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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A wage-efficiency spatial model for US self-employed workers

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2016

In this paper, we study self-employment in a theoretical setting derived from wage-efficiency spatial models, where leisure and effort at work are complementary. We develop a spatial model of self-employment in which effort at work and commuting are negatively related, and thus the probability...

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Spatial distribution of US employment in an urban wage-efficiency setting

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2016

urban wage-efficiency theory. Furthermore, we use Geographical Information System models to show that there is no common …

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Endogeneous household interaction

Del Boca, Daniela; Flinn, Christopher J. - 2009

the household allocation problem. Short-run constraints ensure that each spouse obtains a utility level at least equal to … utility level equal to a least what they would realize by cheating on the efficient allocation and receiving Nash equilibrium … weight of 0.5 for each spouse assumed to apply to all households. -- Household time allocation ; grim trigger strategy …

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Economic consequences of mispredicting utility

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2013

In a simple conceptual framework, we organize a multitude of phenomena related to the (mis)prediction of utility. Consequences in terms of distorted choices and lower wellbeing emerge if people have to trade-off between alternatives that are characterized by attributes satisfying extrinsic...

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Intra-household wealth and welfare inequality in the US : estimations from a collective model of labor supply

Molina, José Alberto; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; … - 2018

wives tend to be more altruistic in comparison to their husbands regarding the intra-household allocation of income, which …

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