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costs of search with its marginal benefit. The consumer can maximize the utility of his consumption-leisure choice with …
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The importance of research in this area is that modern economies seek new value, while the time incorporates a significant economic value. The interest to investigate time use has increased in recent decades, refocusing research programs of economic science towards a new horizon of knowledge...
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Religion was one of the factors that was frequently identified by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century economists as exerting an important influence on the pre-industrial European economies. These writers were especially interested in the economic effects of the Reformation on the economic...
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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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.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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costs of search with its marginal benefit. The consumer can maximize the utility of his consumption-leisure choice with …
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analyse the way time is used for leisure in Romania. I highlight the time use for creative and leisure activities in respect … with gender, following the hypothesis that leisure is an important dimension of gender gap. It was used factor analysis to … observe the differences existing in time use for leisure in respect with occupational status, marital status and education. …
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Informationsfeld Zeitverwendung: das ist das Thema dieser Expertise für die Kommission zur Verbesserung der informationellen Infrastruktur zwischen Wissenschaft und Statistik, die vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung BMBF gefördert wird. Nach vorgegebener Gliederung werden...
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Tourism and traveling industry represents, at international level, the most dynamic economic sector. At the same time, the most important job creator and a source of national economies recovering. Being a complex activity, tourism industry is putting together the efforts of a lot of economic...
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Labour market flexibility continues to be one of the key issues in the reform of labour markets in welfare states. The way in which various countries adapt to this need differs according to their institutions and prevailing strategies. Despite the vast numbers of studies addressing this issue,...
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