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European vs. American hours worked: assessing the role of the extensive and intensive margins
Langot, François; Quintero-Rojas, Coralia - 2008
that the two dimensions of the extensive margin, the employment rate and the participation rate, explain the most of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268973
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Time to work or time to play: the effect of student employment on homework, sleep, and screen time
Kalenkoski, Charlene Marie; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2009
outcomes. Our results suggest that employment decreases the time that high school students spend on human …We use detailed time-diary information on high school students' daily activities from the 2003-2008 American Time Use … Surveys (ATUS) to investigate the effects of employment on the time a student spends on homework and other major activities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269483
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Institutions, social norms, and bargaining power: an analysis of individual leisure time in couple households
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Stratton, Leslie Sundt - 2008
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276860
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Leisure inequality in the United States: 1965 - 2003
Sevilla, Almudena; Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Gershuny, … - 2012
) 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287648
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Trends in hours and economic growth
Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - 2007
We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economic sectors driven by uneven TFP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267775
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Migraine headache and labor market outcomes
Rees, Daniel I.; Sabia, Joseph J. - 2012
While migraine headache can be physically debilitating, no study has attempted to estimate its effects on labor market outcomes. Using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we estimate the effect of migraine headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291413
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Extensive and intensive margins of labour supply: Working hours in the US, UK and France
Blundell, Richard; Bozio, Antoine; Laroque, Guy - 2011
This paper documents the key stylised facts underlying the evolution of labour supply at the extensive and intensive margins in the last forty years in three countries: United-States, United-Kingdom and France. We develop a statistical decomposition that provides bounds on changes at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282379
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Human capital externalities and employment differences across metropolitan areas of the US
Winters, John V. - 2012
It has been well documented that employment outcomes often differ considerably across areas. This paper examines the … external effects on labor force participation and employment for U.S. metropolitan area residents. The empirical results … employment for both women and men. We also find that less educated workers generally receive the largest external benefits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289951
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Joint leisure before and after retirement: A double regression discontinuity approach
Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; van Soest, Arthur - 2012
externalities in leisure. In this study, we investigate how retirement affects the hours of leisure together of individuals in a … effect of retirement on hours of leisure separate and together of individuals in a couple. We find that the retirement … retirement of the husband significantly increases own hours of leisure of the husband but it does not increase joint leisure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284027
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Aggregate impacts of a gift of time
Lee, Jungmin; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011
work declined discretely. The economy-wide drops in market work were reallocated solely to leisure and personal maintenance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282259