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Internationalisation of the health club industry: theory, practice and context

Richardson, Nicole H. - 2003

The leisure industry has been one of the fastest growing industries in Britain (Grade,1998), and in the year 2000 … fastestdeveloping business sectors within the leisure industry (Mintel, 1999), and there ispredicted to be plenty of scope for future …

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Retaining the visitor, enhancing the experience : identifying attributes of choice in repeat museum visitation

Burton, Christine; Louviere, Jordan; Young, Louise C. - 2009

How people make choices in relation to cultural and leisure consumption has been explored from the viewpoint of …, and levels of pricing is an essential element in marketing strategies for museums operating in a competitive leisure …

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Are Shirking and Leisure Substitutable? An Empirical Test of Efficiency Wages Based on Urban Economic Theory

Ross, Stephen L.; Zenou, Yves - 2006

allow for behavioral substitution between leisure time at home and effort at work. In equilibrium, residing at a location … with a long commute affects the time available for leisure at home and therefore affects the trade-off between effort at … wages, which are both consistent with shirking and leisure being substitutable. …

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14.452 Macroeconomic Theory II, Spring 2002

Blanchard, Olivier - 2002

and Facts The basic model: the consumption/saving choice Allowing for a labor/leisure choice (the RBC model) Allowing for …

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14.452 Macroeconomic Theory II, Spring 2005

Blanchard, Olivier - 2005

and Facts; The basic model: the consumption/saving choice; Allowing for a labor/leisure choice (the RBC model); Allowing …

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OFF-FARM WORK PARTICIPATION, OFF-FARM LABOR SUPPLY AND ON-FARM LABOR DEMAND OF U.S. FARM OPERATORS

Huffman, Wallace E.; El-Osta, Hisham S. - 1997

An agricultural household model provides the framework for modeling off-farm work participation and off-farm and on-farm work decisions of farm operators. The empirical results are obtained from fitting the econometric model to data from a large national survey. In the estimated structural...

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Childhood Obesity Risk and the Role of Primary Caregivers: A Triangular Semi-parametric Simultaneous Equations Approach

Xue, Hong; You, Wen; Nayga, Rodolfo M. - 2011

This essay investigates the impacts of primary care giver’s (PCG) time allocation and food expenditure choices on childhood obesity using national panel study of income dynamic (PSID) data. A triangular system of equations is derived and estimated under parametric and semi-parametric model...

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Do decoupled payments really encourage farmers to work more off farm? A micro-level analysis of incentives and preferences

Douarin, Elodie - 2008

According to neo-classical theory, farmoperators’ labour allocation is determined by therelative wage they can earn from their labour on and offthe farm. At the equilibrium, time should be allocated sothat the marginal returns from on- and off-farm workare equal. Thus, a move from coupled to...

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Households' Time Allocation to Micro Credit

Akhimienmhonan, Douglas; Fulton, Murray E. - 2011

employment, its degree of risk aversion, and its relative preference for leisure. The multi-period model explains the household …

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Parental time and children's obesity measures: a theoretical and empirical investigation

Davis, George C. (contributor); M., Nayga Jr. (contributor) - 2005

The increased prevalence of childhood obesity is a major concern for society. Thisstudy aims at exploring the influence of the parents (especially parental time allocationchoices) on childrenÃ¢ÂÂs obesity-related health outcomes and examining the potentialdifferences between the...

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