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The value of leisure synchronization
Georges-Kot, Simon; Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric - 2022
This paper explores the extent to which workers are willing to trade hours worked for leisure time shared with their … spouse. This parameter is essential to properly assess contemporary trends in the regulation of work and leisure time. We use … but we show that a large fraction of them substitute a day of unpaid leisure for a day of paid work whenever their spouse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172887
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Stigma in Welfare Programs
Celhay, Pablo; Meyer, Bruce; Mittag, Nikolas - 2022
Stigma of welfare participation is important for policy and survey design, because it deters program take-up and increases misreporting. Stigma is also relevant to the literature on social image concerns, yet empirical evidence is scant because stigma is difficult to empirically identify. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030404
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Intra-Household Work Time Synchronization - Togetherness or Material Benefits?
Klaveren, Chris van; Maassen van den Brink, Henriette - 2005
If partners derive utility from joint leisure time, it is expected that they will coordinate their work schedules in … order to increase the amount of joint leisure. In order to control for differences in constraints and selection effects …. Finally, partners coordinate their work schedules in order to have more joint leisure time, which is evidence for togetherness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061612
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Intra-Household Work Time Synchronization
Klaveren, Chris van; Maassen van den Brink, Henriette - 2005
leisure time together. For these individuals it then pays off to synchronize work times with their partners. This paper tests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014065285
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The Value of Leisure Synchronization
Georges-Kot, Simon; Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric - 2022
This paper explores the extent to which workers are willing to trade hours worked for leisure time shared with their … spouse. This parameter is essential to properly assess contemporary trends in the regulation of work and leisure time. We use … but we show that a large fraction of them substitute a day of unpaid leisure for a day of paid work whenever their spouse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030821
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No need for more time : intertemporal allocation decisions under time pressure
Lindner, Florian; Rose, Julia - 2016
Time preferences drive decisions in many economic situations, such as investment contexts or salary negotiations. These situations are characterized by a very short time frame for decision making. Preferences are potentially susceptible to the confounding effects of time pressure, as proposed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523286
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Have mobile devices changed working patterns in the 21st century? : a time-diary analysis of work extension in the UK
Mullan, Killian; Wajcman, Judy - In: Work, employment and society : a journal of the British … 33 (2019) 1, pp. 3-20
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No need for more time : intertemporal allocation decisions under time pressure
Lindner, Florian; Rose, Julia - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 60 (2017), pp. 53-70
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Social norms and welfare state dynamics
Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten; Weibull, Jörg - 2003
The paper analyses the interaction between economic incentives and work norms in the context of social insurance. If the work norm is endogenous in the sense that it is weaker when the population share of beneficiaries is higher, then voters will choose less generous bene.ts than otherwise. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507856
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Raising children to work hard : altruism, work norms and social insurance
Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten - 2001
Children who can count on support from altruistic parents may not try hard to succeed in the labor market. Moreover, parental altruism makes withdrawal of such support non-credible. To promote work effort, parents may want to instill norms which later cause their children to experience guilt or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398913