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Synchronous Leisure, Jointness and Household Labor Supply

Hallberg, Daniel - 2002

This paper examines the synchronous leisure of spouses and the extent to which spouses spend time together. The time … synchronous leisure is caused by active synchronization. Spouses' decisions about market work and leisure timing are very … interdependent during most hours of the day. The results also suggest that, conditional on synchronous leisure, parents with high …

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Siesta: A theory of freelancing

Saez Marti, Maria - 2011

-the-job leisure. In a world with heterogenous agents, the problem may be ameliorated by the introduction of a dual labour market with …

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Time for Children, a Study of Parents' Time Allocation

Hallberg, Daniel; Klevmarken, Anders - 2001

Process benefit scores indicates that time with own children is preferred before all other activities, closely followed by market work. The trade-off between parents' time with their own kids and market work, and its dependence on out-of-home day-care is analyzed in a simultaneous equation...

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Portfolio Allocation over the Life Cycle: Evidence from Swedish Household Data

Andersson, Björn - 2001

This paper provides empirical evidence on life-cycle patterns in the asset allocation of Swedish households. Data on household portfolio allocation are collected from the HINK surveys for the period 1982-1992, and portfolio shares of different asset categories are regressed on age, period, and...

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Housing, portfolio choice, and the macroeconomcy

Silos, Pedro; Silos, Pedro - 2005

Much of the macroeconomics literature dealing with wealth distribution has become abstracted from modeling housing explicitly. This paper investigates the properties of the wealth distribution and the portfolio composition regarding housing and equity holdings and their relationship to...

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Does Public Spending on Youths Affect Crime Rates?

Lindvall, Lars - 2003

youths and crime rates. Using a panel of 261 Swedish municipalities the effects on four crime rates of leisure related …

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Time and money: substitutes in real terms and complements in satisfactions

Bonke, Jens; Deding, Mette; Lausten, Mette - 2006

determination of economic satisfaction and leisure satisfaction. We test some hypotheses, including the hypothesis that leisure … satisfaction depends on both the quantity and quality of leisure-where quality is proxied by good intensiveness and social … intensiveness. Our results show that both the quantity and the quality of leisure are important determinants of leisure satisfaction …

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Economic possibilities for our grandchildren: 90 years later

Bibow, Jörg - 2024

capital accumulation in which mankind has solved its economic problem and enjoys a lifestyle predominantly framed by leisure …

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Couple's behaviour in the Brazilian labour market: The influence of social security and individual characteristics on married individuals' labour supply decisions

Queiroz, Bernardo Lanza; de Souza, Laetícia Rodrigues - 2013

In recent years, a large number of studies have investigated the relationship between social security benefits and male retirement decisions in developed countries. However, women's and couples' labour supply decisions and the patterns of withdrawal from the labour force in emerging economies...

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Marriage, Divorce and Interstate Risk Sharing

Halla, Martin; Scharler, Johann - 2008

In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married couples account for a higher share of the population are less exposed to state-specific output shocks. Thus, marriages do not just improve the allocation of risk at the...

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