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leisure and effort at work are complementary. We develop a spatial model of self-employment in which effort at work and … commuting are negatively related, and thus the probability of self-employment decreases with "expected" commuting time. We use … metropolitan areas in the US, focusing on the relationship between commuting time and the probability of self-employment. Our …
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relationship between individual earnings and commuting and leisure. Our empirical results show that employment is mostly …-efficiency background, where leisure and effort at work are complementary. Using data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) for the … concentrated in metropolitan cores, and that earnings increase with "expected" commuting time, which gives empirical support to our …
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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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these factors, differences in commuting distance plays the most important role. In France, though, longer commuting …
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workers distributed between them. We introduce commuting costs and search-matching frictions to deal with the spatial mismatch …
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. Teleworkers also spend less time on commuting and grooming activities but more time on leisure and household production activities …
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