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use for specific purposes (leisure, improving human capital and obtaining goods and services). It uses a unique dataset … websites. Tertiary education has a negative effect on time spent on leisure websites and a positive effect on time spent on …
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All discussions about the desirability of policy reforms rest on judgements about their effects on individuals and societal well-being. Yet, suitable measures for assessing how well-being is changing over time or compares across countries are lacking. This problem is, of course, not new and...
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? measures of economic resources to include leisure time, the sharing of income within households and distributional concerns …
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dramatic increase in leisure time lies behind the relatively stable number of market hours worked (per working-age adult …) between 1965 and 2003. Specifically, we document that leisure for men increased by 6?8 hours per week (driven by a decline in … leisure corresponds to roughly an additional 5 to 10 weeks of vacation per year, assuming a 40-hour work week. We also find …
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watching television over this period, and uncover a widespread increase in leisure inequality in favor of lower educated adults …. Trends in leisure inequality mirror the general increase in income and earnings inequality experienced in most countries over …, in contrast to the increases in leisure found for the US, we fail to find common trends in leisure time across countries …
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' leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing music fosters educational outcomes compared …
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leisure activities. Additionally, we assess the relationship between dimensions of personality and individual preferences in …
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relationship to the demand for leisure. Higher prices for energy goods like gas, electricity or fuel oil due to higher indirect …, respectively leisure demand effects for Germany. Using a demand system to estimate the price, cross-price and income effects of the … goods mobility, electricity, heating and leisure from microdata, there will also be accounted for the extensive demand for …
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relationship to the demand for leisure. Higher prices for energy goods like gas, electricity or fuel oil due to higher indirect …, respectively leisure demand effects for Germany. Using a demand system to estimate the price, cross-price and income effects of the … goods mobility, electricity, heating and leisure from microdata, there will also be accounted for the extensive demand for …
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