Addiction to work: An Inelastic Wage Elasticity of Labour Supply Equals Long Hours of Work
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Keywords
Time Allocation and Labor Supply; Labor Economics; General Intertemporal Consumer Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General
- D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
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