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Using representative income and time use-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we estimate non-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyse their impact on economic inequality. As an alternative to existing measures, we propose a predicted wage approach based...
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work, leisure, and personal care. We emphasize differences in time allocation between older (i.e., those aged 65+) and …
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This paper explores the extent to which workers are willing to trade hours worked for leisure time shared with their … spouse. This parameter is essential to properly assess contemporary trends in the regulation of work and leisure time. We use … but we show that a large fraction of them substitute a day of unpaid leisure for a day of paid work whenever their spouse …
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This study considers how household composition influences the leisure time of men and women in South Africa, using the … South African 2010 Time Use Survey. Studying leisure time is important since the allocation of time outside the market … provides insights into market behaviour and physical and mental health. Household composition and leisure consumption are …
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Stigma of welfare participation is important for policy and survey design, because it deters program take-up and increases misreporting. Stigma is also relevant to the literature on social image concerns, yet empirical evidence is scant because stigma is difficult to empirically identify. We use...
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guided by heterogeneous versions of rationality, thus explaining why households in bank-based systems like Germany provide …
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production, with no change in their leisure time. By looking at the individual components of home production, I find that the …
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affiliation. When it comes to more or less active ways of participating in cultural activities, leisure has a significant impact … the likelihood of being more or less happy in relation to different types of leisure activities. Our approach has the …
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) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure ('pure leisure', 'co-present leisure' and … 'leisure fragmentation') to show that the relative growth in leisure time enjoyed by less-educated individuals documented in … previous studies has been accompanied by a relative decrease in the quality of that leisure time. These results are not driven …
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