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Inequality and Schooling Responses to Globalization Forces : Lessons from History
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2014
abundant Europe and the high-wage, labor scarce New World. Those global forces contributed to a reduction in unskilled labor … scarcity in the New World and to a rise in unskilled labor scarcity in Europe. Thus, it contributed to rising inequality in … overseas countries, like the United States, and falling inequality in most of Europe. Falling unskilled labor scarcity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012752104
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Individual and Aggregate Labor Supply with Coordinated Working Times
Rogerson, Richard - 2010
implications for how aggregate labor supply responds to changes in taxes. In the first model, curvature in the utility from leisure … extent of curvature in the utility from leisure function …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134860
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Racial, Ethnic and Gender Differences in Physical Activity
Saffer, Henry - 2011
activity during leisure-time and also during in many other activities such as walking to work, home maintenance, shopping and … health. Many prior studies have relied primarily on leisure-time physical activity, which typically constitutes only about 10 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120299
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Is Leisure a Normal Good? Evidence from the European Parliament
Mocan, Naci H. - 2011
Prior to July 2009, salaries of the members of the European Parliament were paid by their home country and there were substantial salary differences between parliamentarians representing different EU countries. Starting in July 2009, the salary of each member of the Parliament is pegged to 38.5%...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121058
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Weekends and Subjective Well-Being
Helliwell, John F. - 2011
This paper exploits the richness and large sample size of the Gallup/Healthways US daily poll to illustrate significant differences in the dynamics of two key measures of subjective well-being: emotions and life evaluations. We find that there is no day-of-week effect for life evaluations,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122657
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The Evolution of Income, Consumption, and Leisure Inequality in the Us, 1980-2010
Attanasio, Orazio - 2012
Recent research has documented that income inequality in the United States has increased dramatically over the prior three decades. There has been less of a consensus, however, on whether the increase in income inequality was matched by an equally large increase in consumption inequality. Most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107973
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College as Country Club : Do Colleges Cater to Students' Preferences for Consumption?
Jacob, Brian A. - 2013
This paper investigates whether demand-side market pressure explains colleges' decisions to provide consumption amenities to their students. We estimate a discrete choice model of college demand using micro data from the high school classes of 1992 and 2004, matched to extensive information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087875
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Income Tax Design and the Desirability of Subsidies to Secondary Workers in a Household Model with Joint and Non-Joint Time
Cudmore, Edgar - 2008
In this paper we analyze income tax design in a two member household labor supply model where time spent on consumption together by the two household members is valued differently from time spent apart. We treat consumption as a non excludable public good to members of the household; one example...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773314
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Welfare Work Requirements with Paternalistic Government Preferences
Moffitt, Robert A. - 2006
Work requirements in means-tested transfer programs have grown in importance in the U.S. and in some other countries. The theoretical literature which considers their possible optimality generally operates within a traditional welfarist framework where some function of the utility of the poor is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779749
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Search and Rest Unemployment
Alvarez, Fernando - 2010
unemployment (moving to a new labor market or waiting for labor market conditions to improve) and inactivity (enjoying leisure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759557