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How Do Working-Age People with Disabilities Spend Their Time? New Evidence from the American Time Use Survey
Anand, Priyanka; Ben-Shalom, Yonatan - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014
We use the American Time Use Survey to examine the extent to which adults with disabilities—defined using both the new six-question sequence on disability and the traditional work-limitation question—spend more time on health-related activities and less time on other activities...
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How Do Working-Age People With Disabilities Spend Their Time? New Evidence From the American Time Use Survey
Anand, Priyanka; Ben-Shalom, Yonatan - In: Demography 51 (2014) 6, pp. 1977-1998
spent on leisure activities (defined as activities that provide direct utility, such as entertainment, social activities …
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A Century of Work and Leisure
Ramey, Valerie; Francis, Neville - eSocialSciences - 2006
develop a comprehensive measure of non-leisure hours that includes market work, home production, commuting and schooling for …Has leisure increased over the last century? Standard measures of hours worked suggest that it has. In this paper, we …. Finally, leisure per capita is approximately the same now as it was in 1900 [NBER WP No. 12264]. …
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Monocentric city redux
Rappaport, Jordan - Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City - 2014
extends the monocentric model to explicitly include leisure as a source of utility but constrains workers to supply fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011171345
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The Meaning and Measurement of Productive Engagement in Later Life
Matz-Costa, Christina; James, Jacquelyn; Ludlow, Larry; … - In: Social Indicators Research 118 (2014) 3, pp. 1293-1314
This study draws from the work engagement literature to define engagement as an indicator of role quality and to develop a measure—The Productive Engagement Portfolio (PEP)—that can be used to assess engagement in work, volunteering, caregiving, and informal helping among older adults. A...
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Activity fragmentation, ICT and travel: An exploratory Path Analysis of spatiotemporal interrelationships
Ben-Elia, Eran; Alexander, Bayarma; Hubers, Christa; … - In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 68 (2014) C, pp. 56-74
-work personal travel possibilities and can reallocate time for leisure activity and travel. …
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Total Work, Gender and Social Norms
Hamermesh, Daniel S; Burda, Michael C; Weil, Philippe - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2007
Using time-diary data from 25 countries, we demonstrate that there is a negative relationship between real GDP per capita and the female-male difference in total work time per day—the sum of work for pay and work at home. In rich northern countries on four continents there is no difference—...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011003361
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Different but Equal: Total Work, Gender and Social Norms in EU and US Time Use
Hamermesh, Daniel S; Burda, Michael C; Weil, Philippe - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2008
Using time-diary data from 27 countries, we demonstrate a negative relationship between real GDP per capita and the female-male difference in total work time—the sum of work for pay and work at home. We also show that in rich non-Catholic countries on four continents men and women do the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011003545
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Total Work, Gender and Social Norms
Hamermesh, Daniel S; Burda, Michael C; Weil, Philippe - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2007
Using time-diary data from 25 countries, we demonstrate that there is a negative relationship between real GDP per capita and the female-male difference in total work time per day – the sum of work for pay and work at home. In rich northern countries on four continents, including the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011003797
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The fading scope of labour – remarks about the lost rationale of a common term
Mann, Stefan; Wüstemann, Henry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Work and labour describe activities with a redistributional and a reproductive component. In addition, the terms have gained the function of creating social status and self-esteem. This paper argues that the shifts on the labour market during the past decades question both the redistributive and...
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