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The birth of capitalism: A twenty-first-century perspective

Heller, Henry - 2011

In the light of the deepening crisis of capitalism and continued non-Western capitalist accumulation, Henry Heller re …-examines the debates surrounding the transition from feudalism to capitalism in Europe and elsewhere. Focusing on arguments about … the origin, nature and sustainability of capitalism, Heller offers a new reading of the historical evidence and a critical …

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Systemic Crisis, Systemic Fear: An Exchange

Kliman, Andrew; Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Journal of Critical Globalization Studies (2011) 4, pp. 61-118

paper on 'Systemic Fear, Modern Finance and the Future of Capitalism' (2010). He then goes on to raise a series of issues … Finance and the Future of Capitalism' (2010). The second section takes issue with their earlier critique of Marx’s labour …

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Marxism, Culture and the Measurement of Value

McMahon, James - 2015

theoretically relevant to capital accumulation. Essentially, there is no solid ground for Marxism, of various sorts, to claim that …. And as this paper demonstrates, this problem affects theories that are using Marxism to explain the economic value of …

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The optimal tax rule in the presence of time use

Lim, Jean; Rodríguez-Zamora, Carolina - 2010

Using Mexican data on household time use and consumption, we find significant substitution between goods and time in home production and different elasticities of substitution for different household commodities. Adding these findings to the Ramsey optimal tax problem, we show it is optimal to...

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How do Parents allocate Time ?

Bloemen, Hans G.; Stancanelli, Elena G.F. - 2008

This paper focuses on the time allocation of spouses and the impact of economic variables. We present a stylized model of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model simultaneously specifies three time-use choices -paid...

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Measuring Time Use in Surveys: How Valid Are Time Use Questions in Surveys? Concordance of Survey and Experience Sampling Measures

Sonnenberg, Bettina; Riediger, Michaela; Wrzus, Cornelia; … - 2011

Since it is still unclear to what extent time allocation retrospectively reported in questionnaires, reflects people's actual behavior, examining the accuracy of responses to time use survey questions is of crucial importance. We analyze the congruence of time use information assessed through...

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With or without you: Divorce rates and intra-household allocation of time

Tabasso, Domenico - 2010

This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these investments in terms of childcare and household activities are likely to increase the marital surplus, they are consequently likely to decrease the risk of divorce. All such...

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Cyclical variation in labor hours and productivity using the ATUS

Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Stewart, Jay - 2013

We examine monthly variation in weekly work hours using data for 2003-10 from the Current Population Survey (CPS) on hours/worker, from the Current Employment Survey (CES) on hours/job, and from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) on both. The ATUS data minimize recall difficulties and constrain...

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Total work and gender: Facts and possible explanations

Burda, Michael; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - 2012

Time-diary data from 27 countries show a negative relationship between real GDP per capita and female-male differences in total work time-work for pay and work at home. In rich non-Catholic countries on four continents men and women do about the same average amount of total work. Survey results...

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Identifying the effect of temporal work flexibility on parental time with children

Scheffel, Juliane - 2011

It is recognized that employment policies must grant flexibility to the working schedules to allow parents to reconcile family and work. By exploiting the particularity of the East German labor market, I identify the causal effect of temporal work flexibility on parental time with children. The...

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