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Intra-household work timing : the effect on joint activities and the demand for child care

Klaveren, Chris van; Maassen van den Brink, Henriëtte; … - 2011

that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this …

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Measuring Trends in Leisure : The Allocation of Time Over Five Decades

Aguiar, Mark - 2014

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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Timing, Fragmentation of Work and Income Inequality - An Earnings Treatment Effects Approach

Merz, Joachim; Böhm, Paul; Burgert, Derik - 2008

. The economic theory behind is a human capital approach in a market and non-market context, extended by non-market time use …

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Trends in Hours : The U.S. From 1900 to 1950

Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2008

in the price of leisure goods accounts for seven percent of the total decline in hours …

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Quiet Quitting or Noisy Leisure? The Allocation of Time and Remote Work, 2019-2022

Makridis, Christos - 2023

document three main results. First, time allocated to leisure increased and to work decreased among more remote jobs with no … in leisure was not driven by a quiet quitting' phenomenon …

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Endegeneous Discounting Via Wealth, Twin-Peaks and the Role of Technology

Schumacher, Ingmar - 2007

The article gives new answers to the two following questions: One, what can be a potential source of the twin-peaks of economic growth? Two, why were some of the countries that were believed to belong to the group of low steady state countries (like Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, etc.) able to...

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Economic growth, a golden rule of thumb, and learning by doing

Christiaans, Thomas - 2001

A simple rule of thumb which has been successfully used in the basic neoclassical growth model as an alternative to the unstable dynamic optimization solution is shown to be more generally applicable in a non-scale growth model with learning by doing. The model is formulated in accordance with...

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The supply of hours worked and fluctuations between growth regimes

Iong, Ka-Kit; Irmen, Andreas - 2021

Declining hours of work per worker in conjunction with a growing work force may give rise to fluctuations between growth regimes. This is shown in an overlapping generations model with two-period lived individuals endowed with Boppart-Krusell preferences (Boppart and Krusell (2020)). On the...

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Government size and economic growth in an endogenous growth model with rent-seeking

Wadho, Waqar; Ayaz, Umair - 2017

We explore the relationship between government size and economic growth in an endogenous growth model with human capital and an unproductive capital which facilitates rent-seeking. With exogenous as well as endogenous time discounting, we find a non-monotonic relationship between the size of...

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A one-sector model with learning-by-doing, investment, leisure, and optimal growth

Göcke, Matthias - 2010

determined and a simultaneous dynamic optimisation of leisure/working time and of consumption/saving is executed. Transitional …

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