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To work or not to work : the economics of a mother's dilemma
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, M. Melinda; Walker, Mary Beth - 2011
supply behavior ; intermittent ; labor market exit ; labor leisure choice model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008909056
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Economics of Minority Groups : Labour Market Returns and Transmission of Indigenous Languages
de la Fuente Stevens, Diego; Pelkonen, Panu - 2022
This study demonstrates a series of links between minority language skills, their economic return and their transmission across generations. Using a detailed matching procedure and different data sources, we estimate the likelihood of being employed for bilingual versus monolingual men for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087838
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The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets
Bolte, Lukas; Immorlica, Nicole; Jackson, Matthew O. - 2021
We study the consequences of job markets' heavy reliance on referrals. Referrals screen candidates and lead to better matches and increased productivity, but disadvantage job-seekers who have few or no connections to employed workers, leading to increased inequality. Coupled with homophily,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238786
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Total work, gender and social norms
Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - 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-men...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271946
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Couples' time-use and aggregate labor market outcomes
Balleer, Almut; Merz, Monika; Papp, Tamás K. - 2021
activities, and also in their offered or earned wages. They interact in their choices of market hours, homework, and leisure. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550274
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The economics of time use
Hamermesh, Daniel S. (ed.); Pfann, Gerard A. (contributor) - 2005 - 1. publ.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001895947
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The economics of time use
Hamermesh, Daniel S. (contributor);  … - 2004
Introduction : time-use data in economics / Gerard A. Pfann -- Nobody to play with? : the implications of leisure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009633606
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Working hours and job sharing in the EU and USA : are Europeans lazy? ; or Americans crazy?
Boeri, Tito (contributor) - 2008 - 1. publ.
The distribution of total work in the EU and USA / Michael C. Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh, and Philippe Weil -- Comments / Alberto Alesina, Christopher Pissarides -- Labor market effects of work-sharing arrangements in Europe / Francis Kramarz, Pierre Cahuc, Bruno Crépon, Oskar Nordström Skans,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003558494
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Ocio, Tiempo Libre y Empleo (Leisure, Time and Employment) (in Spanish)
Jimenez Guzman, Luis Fernando - 2011
end in themselves, their true life is leisure (“Skolian”) is apt for this kind of life, in order to seek democracy … renders freedom it is imperative to meet the needs of daily living. Aristotle argues that happiness only appears at leisure … humanity for the work, you must keep it at leisure. The challenge is then the generation of a new economic and tourism sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014181191
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Die langfristige Entwicklung von Arbeit, Freizeit und Produktivität in der Schweiz
Mergele, Lukas; Kaiser, Boris; Wehrli, Damian; … - Schweiz / Staatssekretariat für Wirtschaft - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014511896