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The Productivity of Working Hours
Pencavel, John H. - 2014
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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Why Work More? The Impact of Taxes, and Culture of Leisure on Labor Supply in Europe
Mocan, Naci H. - 2015
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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Recovery from Work and the Productivity of Working Hours
Pencavel, John H. - 2016
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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Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services : A Field Experiment in the US
Giulietti, Corrado - 2015
Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email correspondence study in which we pose simple queries to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016203
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The Distributional Impact of Public Services When Needs Differ
Aaberge, Rolf - 2010
Despite a broad consensus on the need to take into account the value of public services in distributional analysis, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality estimates. In particular, the equivalence scales applied to...
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Trade Shocks and the Provision of Local Public Goods
Feler, Leo - 2016
We analyze the impact of trade-induced income shocks on the size of local government, and the provision of public services. Areas in the US with declining labor demand and incomes due to increasing import competition from China experience relative declines in housing prices and business...
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Intensity of Time and Income Interdependent Multidimensional Poverty : Well-Being and Minimum 2DGAP – German Evidence
Merz, Joachim - 2011
its social participation aspects we define the time dimension as genuine personal leisure time. Based on a CES well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119297
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Is Leisure a Normal Good? Evidence from the European Parliament
Mocan, Naci H. - 2011
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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Retirement Choice Simulation in Household Settings with Heterogeneous Pension Plans
Li, Jinjing - 2011
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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Time Costs of Children as Parents' Foregone Leisure
Ekert Jaffé, Olivia - 2011
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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