combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting …

achieve similar volatility than fully deregulated labor markets. Flexibility at the margin produces a gap in separation costs … de labor market volatility. This increased volatility is partially reverted when limitations in the duration and number … explain the similar volatility observed in many regulated OECD labor markets with flexibility at the margin vis-à-vis the …

over time as a Geometric Brownian motion. A key result demonstrated is that how the economy responds to shocks, i …

Eating requires the food materials that make up meals and also time devoted to buying food, preparing meals and eating … them, and cleaning up afterwards. Using time-diary and expenditure data for the U.S. for 1985 and 2003, I examine how … income and time prices affect time and goods inputs into this household-produced commodity. Focusing on these two years …

Using the 2006-07 American Time Use Survey and its Eating and Health Module, I show that over half of adult Americans … report grazing (secondary eating/drinking) on a typical day, with grazing time almost equaling primary eating/drinking time …. An economic model predicts that higher wage rates (price of time) will lead to substitution of grazing for primary eating …

that time limits on receipt of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families have on female-headed family outcomes, including … welfare use, employment and living arrangements. The effects of time limits depend on the stock of remaining months of … eligibility, which in turn depends on the state time limit and on family's welfare use since the policy was implemented. Since the …

This paper considers the problems facing decision makers using econometric models in real time. It identifies the key …