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GDP and the value of family caretaking: How much does Europe care?

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; … - 2010

This study estimates the size and value of unpaid family caretaking activities at a European level. While at a country level several studies are available, a comprehensive evaluation for Europe as a whole was missing so far, mainly due to data limitations. This paper fills this gap using a...

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Time-bound opportunity costs of informal care: Consequences for access to professional care, caregiver support, and labour supply estimates

Hassink, Wolter; van den Berg, Bernard - 2011

Patterns of informal care are documented throughout the day with Dutch time use diary data. The diary data enable us to identify a, so far overlooked, source of opportunity costs of informal care, i.e. the necessity to perform particular tasks of informal care at specific moments of the day....

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It's the opportunity cost, stupid!: How self-employment responds to financial incentives of return, risk and skew

Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; van Praag, Mirjam - 2011

There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in self-employment rather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We offer a focus on the opportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee. Information on...

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Imperfect transmission of tacit knowledge and other barriers to entrepreneurship

Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - 2007

This paper identifies several distortions which create barriers to entrepreneurship. First, in addition to the innate entry cost, there are entry costs caused by regulation. Second, union wage policies raise the opportunity cost of entrepreneurship. Third, inefficiencies in the transmission of...

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Underpaid or overpaid? Wage analysis for nurses using job and worker attributes

Hirsch, Barry T.; Schumacher, Edward J. - 2008

The nursing labor market presents an apparent puzzle. Hospitals report chronic shortages, yet standard wage analysis shows that nursing wages have increased over time and greatly exceed those received by other college-educated women. This paper addresses this puzzle. Data from the Current...

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A Theory of Social Forces and Immigrant Second Language Acquisition

DeVoretz, Don J.; Werner, Christiane - 2000

The preponderance of minimal second language acquisition by immigrants worldwide is striking. This paper proposes a theoretical model, which analyzes the underlying forces that contribute to this outcome of minimal secondary language acquisition by immigrants in such diverse immigrant-receiving...

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Carefree? : Participation and Pay Differentials for Informal Carers in Britain

Heitmüller, Axel; Inglis, Kirsty - 2004

studies the determinants of labour market participation as well as earnings differentials for informal carers and non …-carers over time. In particular, the paper decomposes participation and wage differentials for non-carers and carers and shows …

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Religious participation versus shopping: What makes people happier?

Cohen-Zada, Danny; Sander, William - 2010

In this paper, we first explore how an exogenous increase in the opportunity cost of religious participation affects … individuals' religious participation and reported happiness using data from the General Social Survey. The exogenous shift in the … cost of religious participation is a result of repealing of so-called blue laws which restrict retail activity on Sundays …

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How opportunity costs decrease the probability of war in an incomplete information game

Polachek, Solomon W.; Xiang, Jun - 2008

This paper shows that the opportunity costs resulting from economic interdependence decrease the equilibrium probability of war in an incomplete information game. This result is strongly consistent with existing empirical analyses of the inverse trade-conflict relationship, but is the opposite...

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The role of preferences and opportunity costs in determining the time allocated to housework

Stratton, Leslie S. - 2012

The time devoted to housework in couple households is substantial. Research on intrahousehold time allocations has generally assumed that housework is a necessary evil and that the partner with the lower opportunity cost of time in the market will devote more time to home production. In reality,...

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