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We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of “culture of leisure” and taxes on labor …. We construct measures of "taste for leisure" in the country of origin of each immigrant father. We employ average and … leisure impact participation and hours worked. For men, taxes influence labor supply both at the intensive and the extensive …
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work, leisure, and personal care. We emphasize differences in time allocation between older (i.e., those aged 65+) and …
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Observations on munition workers are organized to examine the relationship between their output each week, their working hours and days each week, and their working hours and days in adjacent weeks. The hypothesis is that workers need to recover from work and a long working week results in...
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based on income-leisure preferences. We estimate ordinal preferences that are either consistent with actual labor supply … decisions or with income- leisure satisfaction. For different ethical priors regarding work preferences, we compare the welfare …
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Several reforms increased the state pension age (SPA) in the UK and equalised it to age 65 for both men and women. We use panel data and a difference-in-difference approach to comprehensively analyse the direct and indirect effects of these reforms, investigating mechanisms for indirect effects....
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Prescott (2004) argues that Europeans work much less than Americans because of higher taxes and that they would gain significantly by charging US taxes and working as much as Americans. I argue that the opposite may be true and that Americans work more than Europeans due to a coordination...
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leisure and effort at work are complementary. We develop a spatial model of self-employment in which effort at work and …
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-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 …
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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 …
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potential mechanism is a lower frequency of leisure activities, since PRP incentives longer work hours. This study investigates … PRP's effect on a variety of leisure pursuits. After correcting for self-selection, UK data show that PRP workers are less … more likely to eat out and consume alcohol. Such leisure differences between PRP and salaried workers may negatively affect …
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