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Measuring trends in leisure : the allocation of time over five decades
Aguiar, Mark (contributor); Hurst, Erik (contributor) - 2006 - This version: January 2006
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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Trends in Hours : The U.S. From 1900 to 1950
Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2008
in the price of leisure goods accounts for seven percent of the total decline in hours …
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Labor hours in the United States and Europe : the role of different leisure preferences
Maoz, Yishay - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 14 (2010) 2, pp. 231-241
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Time allocation and wage growth
Ierulli, Kathryn - 1995
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A wage-efficiency spatial model for US self-employed workers
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2016
leisure and effort at work are complementary. We develop a spatial model of self-employment in which effort at work and …
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Spatial distribution of US employment in an urban wage-efficiency setting
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2016
-efficiency background, where leisure and effort at work are complementary. Using data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) for the … relationship between individual earnings and commuting and leisure. Our empirical results show that employment is mostly … urban wage-efficiency theory. Furthermore, we use Geographical Information System models to show that there is no common …
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Can US coordination failure explain why Americans work so much more than Europeans?
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2014
Prescott (2004) argues that Europeans work much less than Americans because of higher taxes and that they would gain significantly by charging US taxes and working as much as Americans. I argue that the opposite may be true and that Americans work more than Europeans due to a coordination...
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Not working at work : loafing, unemployment and labor productivity
Burda, Michael C.; Genadek, Katie R.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015
Using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) 2003-12, we estimate time spent by workers in non-work while on the job. Non-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While the average time spent by workers in non-work conditional on any positive non-work rises...
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The Great Recession and unpaid work time in the United States : does poverty matter?
Khitarishvili, Tamar; Kim, Kijong - 2014
In times of economic crises, household production, and the unpaid work time associated with it, can serve as a coping mechanism for absorbing the impact of shocks. Evidence from the Great Recession has been supportive of this possibility, and has revealed the presence of gender asymmetries...
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Home hours in the United States and Europe
Fang, Lei; McDaniel, Cara - 2014
Using data from the Multinational Time Use Study, this paper documents the trends and levels of time allocation, with a focus on home hours, for a relatively large set of industrialized countries during the past 50 years. Three patterns emerge. First, home hours have decreased in both the United...
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