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This paper investigates the impacts of firm technology choice on cross-country variations in gender gaps---particularly those variations in the wages and time devoted to home production. For this purpose, we construct a general equilibrium model that includes firm technology choice and home...
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generations which are more single-minded on leisure are the most better off since they are more able to capture politicians in the …
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of leisure or, in other words, are di¤erently single-minded on the amount of leisure. The use of a probabilistic voting … of groups to focus on leisure. The robustness of these results is also demonstrated in the presence of heterogeneity in …
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Arbeitszeitarrangements – mit Vertiefung hinsichtlich der zeitlichen Lage und der Fragmentierung – auf die Einkommensverteilung anhand der …
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Die Studie untersucht die Einkommen und die Einkommensverteilung der Freien Berufe anhand der Mikrozensusergebnisse für … Einkommensverteilung zunächst der Selbständigen in Freien Berufen mit entsprechenden Lageparametern und Verteilungsangaben analysiert. Die …-Selbständige) gegenübergestellt. Dem Einkommen und der Einkommensverteilung der selbständigen Frauen in Freien Berufen im Vergleich zu den Männern ist …
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.75 hours per week in Canada, but in the U.S it remained relatively stable, and (3) over the sample period, leisure time … increased in the U.S., but fell in Canada. In addition, the least educated enjoy more leisure relative to the most highly …
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Hundreds of papers have investigated how incentives and policies affect hours worked in the market. This paper examines how income taxes affect time allocation in the other two-thirds of the day. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1975 to 2004, we analyze the response of single...
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The possibilities of time use research approaches for the analysis of the use of media is the focus of this study. After describing previous studies of media analyses time use research is characterised and the particular suitability of its central surveying instruments – stylised survey...
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This paper is asking about the actual used and appropriate data for recent substantive time use research. Emphasis is laid on both, macroanalytic and microanalytic approaches. However, the focus is on microeconomic approaches with topics on time use in the labour market (labour supply) and...
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Using a national representative sample for Mexico, we analyse the effect of a husband having a working mother on the probability that he has a working wife. Our results show that labour force participation by a husband’s mother increases the probability of the labour force participation of his...
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