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The conventional view is that Americans work longer hours than Germans and other Europeans but when time in household production is included, overall working time is very similar on both sides of the Atlantic. Americans spend more time on market work but German invest more in household...
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utility derived from leisure time often benefits from the presence of companionable others inside and outside the household … propensities to engage in associative activity depend on the availability of Suitable Leisure Companions outside the household. Our …
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.75 hours per week in Canada, but in the U.S it remained relatively stable, and (3) over the sample period, leisure time … increased in the U.S., but fell in Canada. In addition, the least educated enjoy more leisure relative to the most highly …
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(leisure, improving human capital and obtaining goods and services). It uses a unique dataset which covers the entire … effect on time spent on leisure websites and a positive effect on time spent on human capital and goods & services websites …
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(leisure, improving human capital and obtaining goods and services). It uses a unique dataset which covers the entire … effect on time spent on leisure websites and a positive effect on time spent on human capital and goods & services websites …
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(leisure, improving human capital and obtaining goods and services). It uses a unique dataset which covers the entire … effect on time spent on leisure websites and a positive effect on time spent on human capital and goods & services websites …
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externalities in leisure. In this study, we investigate how retirement affects the hours of leisure together of individuals in a … effect of retirement on hours of leisure separate and together of individuals in a couple. We find that the retirement … retirement of the husband significantly increases own hours of leisure of the husband but it does not increase joint leisure …
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goods that enabled humans to derive more pleasure out of leisure, namely dance and music. I model the incentives to invent …
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The implementation of Gary Becker's (1965) time allocation model is hampered by the fact that values of the different time uses are usually not observed. In practice, one often assumes that the value of time is uniform across time uses by using market wages. This approach implies a fundamental...
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This article uses household data to measure the substitutability between time and money for eight commodity groups and different countries. The elasticities estimated using the household's market wage and an estimated opportunity cost of time are positive, indicating substitutability, and much...
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