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Flexible Working and Couples' Coordination of Time Schedules
Bryan, Mark L. - 2014
Using previously unexploited data on time scheduling in the employment and household contexts, we investigate the … dimensions of flexible working: flexibility of daily start and finish times (flexitime), flexibility of work times over the year … relationships with daily synchronous time for these two flexibility measures are consistent with their broader scope (control over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051014
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Immigration and Work Schedules : Theory and Evidence
Bond, Timothy - 2020
price of day tasks increases as their supply becomes relatively more scarce. We provide empirical support for our theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833887
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Risk, Delegation, and Project Scope
Roider, Andreas - 2021
This paper studies a partial-contracting model where an agent may provide effort to increase a project's scope before some later decisions have to be taken. Consistent with existing empirical evidence, we find a positive relationship between exogenous risk and delegation. That is, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316757
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Working Times and Overweight : Tight Schedules, Weaker Fitness?
Costa-Font, Joan - 2018
Although the rise in obesity and overweight is related to time constraints influencing health investments (e.g., exercise, shopping and cooking time, etc.), there is limited causal evidence to substantiate such claims. This paper estimates the causal effect of a change in working times on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912754
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Marathon, Hurdling or Sprint? The Effects of Exam Scheduling on Academic Performance
Goulas, Sofoklis - 2018
substantially different scheduling effects between STEM and non-STEM subjects. First, we find a positive relationship between exam … performance in STEM subjects and exam order, controlling for other influences of scheduling, suggesting that the later in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915322
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On the Escalation and De-Escalation of Conflict
Lacomba, Juan A. - 2013
We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict behavior and repeated interaction on the allocation of effort between production and appropriation. Without repeated interaction, destruction of resources by defeated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078824
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Flexible Work Organization and Employer Provided Training : Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
Campaner, Annika - 2018
variety, two essential elements of flexibility. Critically, the training associated with workplace flexibility does not simply … workplace flexibility is disproportionately oriented toward employees with a greater formal education. Our results also provide … modest evidence of an age bias of workplace flexibility. However, the link between workplace flexibility and training does …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912771
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In-Work Benefits and the Nordic Model
Kolm, Ann-Sofie - 2013
Welfare benefits in the Nordic countries are often tied to employment. We argue that this is one of the factors behind the success of the Nordic model, where a comprehensive welfare state is associated with high employment. In a general equilibrium setting, the underlining mechanism works...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089009
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Towards a General Theory of Peer Effects
Boucher, Vincent; Rendall, Michelle; Ushchev, Philip; … - 2023
There is substantial empirical evidence showing that peer effects matter in many activities. The workhorse model in empirical work on peer effects is the linear-in-means (LIM) model, whereby it is assumed that agents are linearly affected by the mean action of their peers. We develop a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014345571
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Back to Edgeworth? Estimating the Value of Time Using Hedonic Experiences
Krekel, Christian; MacKerron, George - 2023
Following early economist Francis Y. Edgeworth's proposal to measure people's hedonic experiences as they go about their daily lives, we use a smartphone app that over eight years randomly asked a panel of 30, 936 UK residents (N = 2, 235, 733) about their momentary feelings and activities to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346670