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use for specific purposes (leisure, improving human capital and obtaining goods and services). It uses a unique dataset … websites. Tertiary education has a negative effect on time spent on leisure websites and a positive effect on time spent on …
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This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these investments in terms of childcare and household activities are likely to increase the marital surplus, they are consequently likely to decrease the risk of divorce. All such...
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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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watching television over this period, and uncover a widespread increase in leisure inequality in favor of lower educated adults …. Trends in leisure inequality mirror the general increase in income and earnings inequality experienced in most countries over …, in contrast to the increases in leisure found for the US, we fail to find common trends in leisure time across countries …
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watching television over this period, and uncover a widespread increase in leisure inequality in favor of lower educated adults …. Trends in leisure inequality mirror the general increase in income and earnings inequality experienced in most countries over …, in contrast to the increases in leisure found for the US, we fail to find common trends in leisure time across countries …
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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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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 five to eight hours in countries with high leisure levels thirty … years ago and has increased around one hour in the other countries. For men the reduction in leisure was driven by an …
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not changed considerably. Demographics, amount of leisure, and other factors all have contributed to changes over time …
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leisure increased most in France and least in the U.S. Contrary to what standard theory predicts, home hours changed …
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