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Hundreds of papers have investigated how incentives and policies affect hours worked in the market. This paper examines … 1975 to 2004 shows that changes in "home production" account for at least half of the increase in market hours of work in …
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Evidence from the American Time Use Survey 2003-12 suggests the existence of small but statistically significant racial/ethnic differences in time spent not working at the workplace. Minorities, especially men, spend a greater fraction of their workdays not working than do white non-Hispanics....
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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 … market work hours) and for women by 4-8 hours per week (driven by a decline in home production work hours). This increase in …
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cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan around 1990 and Korea in the early 2000s …. Using time-diaries from before and after these shocks, we show that these shocks were effective--per-capita hours of market …
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-recessionary period, to explore how foregone market work hours are allocated to other activities over the business cycle. Given the short … roughly 30% to 40% of the foregone market work hours are allocated to increased home production. Additionally, 30% of the … foregone hours are allocated to increased sleep time and increased television watching. Other leisure activities absorb 20% of …
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weekend work would drop by about 10 percent if European workweeks prevailed. Even if no Americans worked long hours, the …
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dataset on work hours of Federal Reserve supervisors. We highlight the trade-offs between the benefits and costs of …. More supervisory resources are spent on larger, more complex, and riskier banks. However, hours increase less than … reallocation of supervisory hours at times of stress and in the post-2008 enhanced supervisory framework for large banks, providing …
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For 200 years the average number of hours worked per worker declined, both in the market placeand at home …
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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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We examine monthly variation in weekly work hours using data for 2003-10 from the Current Population Survey (CPS) on … hours/worker, from the Current Employment Survey (CES) on hours/job, and from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) on both …. The ATUS data minimize recall difficulties and constrain hours of work to accord with total available time. The ATUS hours …
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