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significantly more, since the additional hours women work in the labour market are not counterbalanced by a relevant reduction in … their other labour activities. For men, we do not find any significant effect of price changes on hours of work …
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weekend work would drop by about 10 percent if European workweeks prevailed. Even if no Americans worked long hours, the …
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Using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) 2003-12, we estimate time spent by workers in non-work while on the job. Non-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While the average time spent by workers in non-work conditional on any positive non-work rises...
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longer hours and experiencing time pressures. Whilst the effect of most personality traits is consistent with a rational … paid and more unpaid hours) and discuss implications for both labour market discrimination and labour supply theory. …
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The aim of our paper is to analyse the relationship between working time flexibility and parental time devoted to children. Using data from a large panel survey of Polish households carried out in 2013 and 2014 (Determinants of Educational Decisions Household Panel Survey, UDE) we investigate...
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Consumers often organize their time by scheduling various tasks, but also leave some time unaccounted. The authors examine whether ending an interval of unaccounted time with an upcoming task systematically alters how this time is perceived and consumed. Eight studies conducted both in the lab...
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teleworkers work at 'regular hours', vs around 80% of similar commuters. A higher percentage of teleworkers than commuters are … engaged in leisure and non-market work at the central hours of the day. Using additional information from the Well … why teleworkers are able to work fewer hours per day …
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activities, and also in their offered or earned wages. They interact in their choices of market hours, homework, and leisure. We … techniques. We generate gender-specific own- and cross-wage elasticities of market hours in the cross-section. Elasticities are …
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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 … market work hours) and for women by 4-8 hours per week (driven by a decline in home production work hours). This increase in …
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We examine time allocation decisions in same-sex and different-sex couples from a Beckerian comparative advantage perspective. In particular, we estimate the comparative advantage relationship between time spent on either market or household activities and a dummy for being the highest earner in...
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