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We propose a collective labor supply model with household production that generalizes an original model of Blundell, Chiappori and Meghir (2005). In our model, adults' individual preferences do not only depend on own leisure and individual private consumption of market goods. They also depend on...
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relationship between individual earnings and commuting and leisure. Our empirical results show that employment is mostly … concentrated in metropolitan cores, and that earnings increase with "expected" commuting time, which gives empirical support to our … pattern of commuting and the employees-to-unemployed rate, although we find higher wages in comparatively crowded states …
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We investigate the causal effect of commuting on sickness absence from work using German panel data. To address reverse … causation, we use changes in commuting distance for employees who stay with the same employer and who have the same residence … during the period of observation. In contrast to previous papers, we do not observe that commuting distances are associated …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between commuting time and sick-day absence of US workers. Using data from the … determining how commuting time is related to sickness absenteeism, we shed light on the relationship between commuting behavior …
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only reduce their commuting costs by reducing total labour supply. However, a labour supply model which also allows for … optimally chosen daily hours implies that commuting costs increase daily hours, whereas the effect on total labour supply is … commuting distance using the socio-economic panel data for Germany between 1997 and 2007. Endogeneity of commuting distance is …
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commuting time has any effect on worker's labour market supply. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-03, our GMM/IV estimation … yields a positive causal impact of commuting time on the time devoted to the labour market, with one hour of commuting … between commuting and workers behaviour, since daily labour supply should be considered in theoretical models to provide a …
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participation. In doing so, we estimate the labor supply elasticity of commuting time from a sample of men and women in US cities … 10 minutes increase in commuting decreases the probability of married women to participate in the labor market by 4 … with children and immigrant women originating from countries with more gendered social norms respond the most to commuting …
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market with a parsimonious household model that endogenizes commuting time. Using the American Community Survey 2008-2019, we …, and marital status. These differences among men and women amount to 50%, and 100%, respectively, of the gender commuting … commuting time are also significantly smaller in same-sex couples, and labor supply disparities mimic the commuting ones …
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It is unlikely that husbands and wives always agree on exactly what public goods to buy. Nor do they necessarily agree on how many hours to work with obvious consequences for the household budget. We therefore model consumption and labor supply behavior of a couple in a non-cooperative setting...
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In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for two-earner households. The novelty of this paper is that we estimate a version of the collective household model, where the internally produced goods and the externally purchased goods are assumed to be...
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