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Total work and gender : facts and possible explanations
Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - 2012
Time-diary data from 27 countries show a negative relationship between real GDP per capita and female-male differences in total work time-work for pay and work at home. In rich non-Catholic countries on four continents men and women do about the same average amount of total work. Survey results...
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Internet Access and its Implications for Productivity, Inequality, and Resilience
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - 2021
About one-fifth of paid workdays will be supplied from home in the post-pandemic economy, and more than one-fourth on an earnings-weighted basis. In view of this projection, we consider some implications of home internet access quality, exploiting data from the new Survey of Working Arrangements...
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Patterns of Time Use Among Older People
Ferranna, Maddalena; Sevilla, J. P.; Zucker, Leo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze time use studies to describe how people allocate their time as they age, especially among paid work, unpaid work, leisure, and personal care. We emphasize differences in time allocation between older (i.e., those aged 65+) and younger people; between developed and developing countries;...
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The Distribution of Leisure Time Across Countries and Over Time
Engler, Monika; Staubli, Stefan - 2008
In this paper, we use time-use surveys to examine trends in the allocation of time in five industrialized countries over the last thirty years. Adjusting for changing demographics, we find that leisure time across countries has converged over this period. Specifically, leisure time has declined...
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The Child Penalty Atlas
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
sizable child penalties: men and women follow parallel trends before parenthood, but diverge sharply and persistently after … parenthood. While this qualitative pattern is pervasive, there is enormous variation in the magnitude of the effects across … gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in …
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Ageing and skills : a review and analysis of skill gain and skill loss over the lifespan and over time
Desjardins, Richard; Warnke, Arne Jonas - 2012
The relationship between ageing and skills is becoming an important policy issue, not least in the context of population ageing. Data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) will potentially add considerably to the understanding of the relationship...
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A Theory of General Cause of Violent Crime : Homicides, Income Inequality and Fallacies of the Heat Hypothesis and of the Model of CLASH
Coccia, Mario - 2017
This paper has two goals. The first is to show that the heat hypothesis provides a partial explanation of violent crime in society. The second is to suggest an alternative hypothesis that intentional homicides can be explained by the level of income inequality, even when controlling thermal...
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Short-term Forecasting of the COVID-19 Pandemic using Google Trends Data : Evidence from 158 Countries
Fantazzini, Dean - 2020
The ability of Google Trends data to forecast the number of new daily cases and deaths of COVID-19 is examined using a dataset of 158 countries. The analysis includes the computations of lag correlations between confirmed cases and Google data, Granger causality tests, and an out-of-sample...
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International Cooperation to Improve Access to and Sustain Effectiveness of Antimicrobials
Årdal, Christine - 2016
Securing access to effective antimicrobials is one of the greatest challenges today. Until now, efforts to address this issue have been isolated and uncoordinated, with little focus on sustainable and international solutions. Global collective action is necessary to improve access to life-saving...
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Investor-State Arbitration : A New Threat to Global Access to Affordable Medicine
Ho, Cynthia M. - 2018
This is an introduction to a new development in the international arena that poses a threat to the ability of countries to tailor patent and regulatory laws to promote access to medicine. Basically, certain international agreements permit foreign companies to sue a country for compensation if...
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