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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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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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costs of remaining in the labor market that alter the pattern of non-market activities, reducing leisure time and mostly …
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(leisure). Our novel design allows to measure whether participants prefer to anticipate or delay gratification, without …-monetary rewards (negative time preferences for leisure). These results cannot be explained by personal timetables and heterogeneous …
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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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posit that leisure time will be more sensitive to power considerations than housework time which may be more influenced by … supportive of these hypotheses, with leisure time on non-work days in the US being particularly responsive to economic power. In … enjoy more leisure time than would be suggested by their economic power alone …
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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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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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