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Evidence from the American Time Use Survey 2003-12 suggests the existence of small but statistically significant racial/ethnic differences in time spent not working at the workplace. Minorities, especially men, spend a greater fraction of their workdays not working than do white non-Hispanics....
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This paper examines the role of home production in estimating life-cycle labor supply. I show that, consistent with previous studies, ignoring an individual's time spent on home production when estimating the Frisch elasticity of labor supply biases its estimate downwards. I also show, however,...
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A model with two different production sectors and endogenous growth based on the accumulation of sector-specific human capital due to learning-by-doing is presented. Accumulation of experience is measured by means of sectoral production output aggregated over time. Growth is controlled by a...
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Consumers often organize their time by scheduling various tasks, but also leave some time unaccounted. The authors examine whether ending an interval of unaccounted time with an upcoming task systematically alters how this time is perceived and consumed. Eight studies conducted both in the lab...
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activities, and also in their offered or earned wages. They interact in their choices of market hours, homework, and leisure. We … techniques. We generate gender-specific own- and cross-wage elasticities of market hours in the cross-section. Elasticities are …
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We document the large dispersion in hours worked in the cross-section. We account for this fact using a model in which … hours worked in the data. The substitutability between market inputs and time within an activity and across a sizable number … observed hours dispersion. …
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compensatory (comp) time for premium pay for workers' overtime work hours. It employs data from a unique survey that actually asked …
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work schedules and does this result in work time synchronization?; (2) which partners synchronize more work hours?; and (3 …) is there a preference for togetherness? We find that coordination results in more synchronized work hours. The presence …
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synchronize more than 80 percent of their possible work time hours and that (3) the main reason why couples are not able to …
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We model a competitive labour market where firms choose combinations of workers and hours per worker to produce output …. If one assumes that the scale of production has no impact on hours per worker, then the change in the number of workers … and hours per worker resulting from a minimum wage are inversely related. We demonstrate that total hours worked at the …
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