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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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Spatial distribution of US employment in an urban wage-efficiency setting

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2015

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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 …

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