Work effort effects in the classical labor supply model [PDF]
This paper considers an extension of the classical static labor-leisure choice model to allow for an on-the-job leisure choice. The key result is that an income-compensated wage increase, while theoretically increasing hours worked, will likely increase ...
David L. Dickinson
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Game Time: Not Too Much, Nor Too Little [PDF]
, 2019 The amount of time young adults spend on online gaming has drawn attention from governments and academics. While these concerns posit a spatial separation between the game world and reality, they fail to understand the gaming activity in relation to ...
Yao, Xuemeng
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Keeping in Touch – A Benefit of Public Holidays [PDF]
This paper argues that public holidays facilitate the co-ordination of leisure time but do not constrain the annual amount of leisure. Public holidays therefore have benefits both in the utility of leisure on holidays and (by enabling people to maintain ...
Merz, Joachim, Osberg, Lars
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Conspicuous Leisure: Optimal Income Taxation when both Relative Consumption and Relative Leisure Matter [PDF]
Previous studies on public policy under relative consumption concerns have ignored the role of leisure comparisons. This paper considers a two-type optimal nonlinear income tax model where people care both about their relative consumption and their ...
Aronsson, Thomas +1 more
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A step into the light: developing a culturally appropriate research prcoess to study Maori Rangatahi perspectives of leisure in one setting. [PDF]
, 2002 There is little knowledge of Maori peoples' leisure understandings, experiences and participation. This article reports on the development of a culturally appropriate research process that investigated the leisure participation, perspectives, and ...
Harvey, Geraldine
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Keeping in touch – A benefit of public holidays using time use diary data [PDF]
This paper argues that public holidays facilitate the co-ordination of leisure time but do not constrain the annual amount of leisure. Public holidays therefore have benefits both in the utility of leisure on holidays and (by enabling people to maintain ...
Joachim Merz, Lars Osberg
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When leisure becomes excessive: a bifurcation result in endogenous growth theory [PDF]
The traditional assumption concerning endogenous labor supply in models of economic growth is that utility increases with leisure, independently of the specific time allocation of the representative agent observed at a given moment.
Gomes, Orlando
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Incentive for the Homogenization of Time Use [PDF]
An increasing variety of phenomena involve the mixing of market work and leisure, or market work and home production, both by individuals and across household members.
Daniel S. Hamermesh
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Indeterminacy in Two-Sector Models of Endogenous Growth with Leisure [PDF]
This paper demonstrates that preference structure may play a pivotal role in generating indeterminacy in the stylized model of endogenous growth. By examining two-sector models of endogenous growth with human capital formation, we show that if the ...
Mino, Kazuo
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Motivational factors and the experience of learning in educational leisure settings [PDF]
, 2004 Motivation is an important aspect of learning in educational leisure settings because it affects the choices visitors make regarding what to attend to, the amount of effort they devote to learning, and the extent to which they enjoy the experience ...
Packer, Jan Merle
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