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Scheffel, Juliane - 2011

ihrer Kinder abmildert. … gain from temporal work flexibility on parental time with children. Flexitime arrangements allow mothers to spend 30 … percent more of their disposable time on childcare. The results are generalizable to Germany as a whole. The paper provides …

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On the Use of Subjective Well-Being Data for Environmental Valuation

Moro, Mirko; Ferreira, Susana - 2009

This paper explores the potential of using subjective well-being (SWB) data to valueenvironmental attributes. A theoretical framework compares this method, also known as the lifesatisfaction approach, with the standard hedonic pricing approach, identifying their similarities and differences. As...

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Fairly satisfied : economic equality, wealth and satisfaction

O'Connell, Michael F. - 2004

Research appears to demonstrate that economic variables are only marginally predictive of levels of social satisfaction …. It was hypothesised that a greater association might be found between satisfaction and equality of income distribution … rather than between satisfaction and size of income. The interrelationship between wealth (GDPpc), equality of income and …

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Time use and the dynamics of the service sector

Gershuny, Jonathan - 1987

This article looks at the historical dynamics of service provision from a rather unusual perspective - the change of patterns of time use. It discusses a mechanism whereby activity patterns in 'the economy' may be accounted for in terms of time rather than money, and shows how this form of...

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Happiness, Philosophy and Economics

Andrew Hodge - 2011

Happiness research is a new, rapidly growing and provocative aspect of economic science. In fact, there are now over 1 …,800 published papers on the subject, and it might be said that the ‘dismal science’ has come to be obsessed with happiness. This … is the ‘Easterlin Paradox’ – the finding that self-reported happiness does not always appear to grow in tandem with …

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Some child cost estimates for South Africa

Sienaert, Alexis - 2008

costs of the most common economic dependents in households: children. The monetary costs of children are estimated at about … costs suggests that children's "full costs" are about twice monetary costs alone; with household resources fixed, the … average, combined expenditure and time impact of children is very similar to adding an equivalent number of adults. …

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The new discrimination and child care

Apps, Patricia - 2007

Over the last decade a number of countries, notably the USA, theUK and Australia, have introduced new tax and welfare programs,or expanded existing programs, that have the effect of raising taxrates on the income of the second earner in the family. Examplesinclude the earned income tax credit...

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