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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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not clear cut. Contrary to the usual practice of considering the allocation of household income over consumption and …
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characterizations leave the discounting function essentially unrestricted, the theory can accommodate, in particular, decision makers …
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substitu- tion. Implications regarding the shape of the optimal consumption pro?files are discussed. …
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We study the effect of endogenous time preference in a simple neo-classical model of growth. The variation of time preference causes the economy to have multiple steady states, some of which are similar to poverty traps. The stability properties of these steady states are analyzed. The results...
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consumption development and thus average welfare of individual cohorts. The analysis is based on a Ramsey growth model and refers …
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do not examine the determinants of the level of per capita income as an indication that a certain theory has better …
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-the-job leisure. In a world with heterogenous agents, the problem may be ameliorated by the introduction of a dual labour market with …
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allow for behavioral substitution between leisure time at home and effort at work. In equilibrium, residing at a location … with a long commute affects the time available for leisure at home and therefore affects the trade-off between effort at … shirking and leisure are complementary with the marginal benefit of shirking increasing with an individual's net time endowment. …
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