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Lee, Jungmin; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011

How would people spend additional time if confronted by permanent declines in market work? We examine the impacts of cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan around 1990 and Korea in the early 2000s. Using time-diaries from before and after these shocks,...

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Learning-by-doing in two sectors, production structure, leisure and optimal endogenous growth

Göcke, Matthias - 2011

A model with two different production sectors and endogenous growth based on the accumulation of sector-specific human capital due to learning-by-doing is presented. Accumulation of experience is measured by means of sectoral production output aggregated over time. Growth is controlled by a...

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Trends in time allocation: A cross-country analysis

Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Sevilla, Almudena - 2012

Using detailed time-use data for seven industrialized countries from the 1970s until today we document general decreases in men's market work coupled with increases in men's unpaid work and child care, and increases in women's paid work and child care coupled with decreases in unpaid work. We...

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Timing, fragmentation of work and income inequality: An earnings treatment effects approach

Merz, Joachim; Böhm, Paul; Burgert, Derik - 2005

tägliche Lage der Arbeitszeit und ihrer Fragmentierung - und seiner resultierenden Einkommensverteilung. Mit unserem Fokus auf …, die sich auf aggregierte Voll-und Teilzeitarbeit, wöchentliche Arbeitszeit, Arbeit am Wochenende, Lebensarbeitszeit etc …. beschränkt.Während der erste Teil unserer Studie die Verteilung der zeitlichen Lage und Fragmentierung der täglichen Arbeitszeit …

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