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Most economic models for time allocation ignore constraints on what people can actually do with their time. Economists recently have emphasized the importance of considering prior consumption commitments that constrain behavior. This research develops a new model for time valuation that uses...
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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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dramatic increase in leisure time lies behind the relatively stable number of market hours worked (per working-age adult …) between 1965 and 2003. Specifically, we show that leisure for men increased by 6-8 hours per week (driven by a decline in … leisure corresponds to roughly an additional 5 to 10 weeks of vacation per year, assuming a 40-hour work week. Alternatively …
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From the theoretical point of view, the justification for aggregating leisure and work at home into one entity, "non … socioeconomic variables than is leisure, and this paper shows that the aggregation is also suspect from the analytical point of view …
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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 …
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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...
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Major strands of recent macroeconomic theory hinge on the relation of workers' efforts to their wages, but there has … average worker relaxing at work has no impact on earnings (and is presumably unproductive). Additional on-the- job leisure … does raise earnings of workers whose break time is very short. Only among union workers, for whom additional leisure time …
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for this economy, thereby obtaining a theory of endogenous growth that captures in a tractable way the social nature of …
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In this survey, I discuss four sources of growth of knowledge: research, schooling, learning by doing, and training. In trying to disentangle what is important, I emphasize the following facts: (1) even the most advanced countries spend far more on adoption of existing technologies than on...
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A major unresolved issue in business cycle theory is the construction of an endogenous propagation mechanism capable of …
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