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This study is the first to present evidence of the return to leisure sports in the job hiring process by sending … given different information about their type and level of leisure sport being engaged in. Applications which signal sport … for non-cognitive skills. Hence, these results indicate that being engaged in leisure sports signals having important …
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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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This paper provides an empirical test of the rational addiction model, used in economics to model individuals …
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This paper investigates the impact of drug decriminalization in Portugal using the Synthetic Control Method. The applied econometric methodology compares Portuguese drug-related variables with the ones extracted from a convex combination of similar European countries. The results suggest that a...
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This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these investments in terms of childcare and household activities are likely to increase the marital surplus, they are consequently likely to decrease the risk of divorce. All such...
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Crime has been argued to have important externalities. We investigate the relationship between violent crime and an important type of behaviour: individuals' participation in their local area through walking and physical activity. We use a sample of nearly 1 million people residing in over 320...
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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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