This paper examines whether and how changes in the price of goods consumed in conjunction with leisure time influence the life-cycle allocation of work effort by part of prime-age males. For the U.S., individual-level data is combined with Metropolitan Area-level price indices of recreation...

The predicted labor supply responses to variations in wages and prices are important for discussions of the economic efficiency of taxes and subsidies, and their extent may be also relevant to the analysis of economic fluctuations. This paper presents new estimates of the wage intertemporal...

About half of all employees in Spain are on a daytime split work schedule, i.e. they typically work for 5 h in the morning, take a 2-hour break at lunch time, and work for another 3 h in the afternoon/evening. This paper studies the effects of split work schedule on workers' psychological...