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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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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 of self-employment decreases with "expected" commuting time. We use … metropolitan areas in the US, focusing on the relationship between commuting time and the probability of self-employment. Our …
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relationship between individual earnings and commuting and leisure. Our empirical results show that employment is mostly …-efficiency background, where leisure and effort at work are complementary. Using data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) for the … concentrated in metropolitan cores, and that earnings increase with "expected" commuting time, which gives empirical support to our …
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allow for behavioral substitution between leisure time at home and effort at work. In equilibrium, residing at a location … with a long commute affects the time available for leisure at home and therefore affects the trade-off between effort at … wages, which are both consistent with shirking and leisure being substitutable. …
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Millions of children are forcibly displaced around the world, making child labor a serious risk. However, little is known about this topic due to the difficulty of finding representative datasets for this population and information on child labor. In this study, we use a representative dataset...
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This article explores the gender gap in time allocation in Europe, offering up-to-date statistics and information on several factors that may help to explain these differences. Prior research has identified several factors affecting the time individuals devote to paid work, unpaid work, and...
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the time spent on paid work and increased the amount of time spent on household chores and leisure in roughly equal …
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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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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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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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