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Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output and their working hours. The relationship is nonlinear: below an hours threshold, output is proportional to hours; above a threshold, output rises at a decreasing rate as hours...
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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 … attributes of the country of residence and country of ancestry.The results show that for women, both taxes and culture of leisure …
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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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its social participation aspects we define the time dimension as genuine personal leisure time. Based on a CES well …
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Prior to July 2009, salaries of the members of the European Parliament were paid by their home country and there were substantial salary differences between parliamentarians representing different EU countries. Starting in July 2009, the salary of each member of the Parliament is pegged to 38.5%...
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of monetary and leisure incentives, which reflect the complex welfare system in Ireland. The household extension version … incorporate complimentary leisure, which allows us to analyse the interactions of spouses' retirement timing. This methodology … based model. When we consider the intra-household bargaining and the higher preference of leisure found in the dual career …
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home production and labor supply. Time costs are computed in terms of hours of foregone leisure. The model accounts for … selection into full-time employment and controls for use of hired childcare workers. We find that the foregone leisure cost of …
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) 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 … previous studies has been accompanied by a relative decrease in the quality of that leisure time. These results are not driven …
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watching television over this period, and uncover a widespread increase in leisure inequality in favor of lower educated adults …. Trends in leisure inequality mirror the general increase in income and earnings inequality experienced in most countries over …, in contrast to the increases in leisure found for the US, we fail to find common trends in leisure time across countries …
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