Estimating the value of leisure from a time allocation model

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 946-957

  Jara Díaz, Sergio R ^a   Munizaga, Marcela A ^a   Greeven, Paulina ^a   Guerra, Reinaldo ^a   Axhausen, Kay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Leisure; Microeconomics; Value of time; Work

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT;

ESTIMATED PARAMETER; LEISURE; MICROECONOMICS; NEW APPROACHES; SWITZERLAND; TIME ALLOCATION MODEL; VALUE OF TIME; WORK;

ECONOMICS;

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; ECONOMETRICS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MICROECONOMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; TIME ALLOCATION;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; CENTRAL EUROPE; CHILE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; KARLSRUHE; METROPOLITANA; SOUTH AMERICA; SWITZERLAND; THURGAU;

EID: 52749089487     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2008.03.001     Document Type: Article

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