Re: gender & work time
On Apr 21, 2007, at 2:31 PM, bitch@pulpculture.org wrote:
thanks! and it’s a laff-a-minute, too, with paragraphs like this:
5.1 One Norm for All, NoWithin-Gender Heterogeneity Imagine that, in the absence of a social norm, consumers maximize the linear-quadratic utility function C - (1/2.)(1 - L)2 (1) subject to constraints C = + wH, (2) H + L = 1, (3) where C and L denote consumption and leisure, w is the wage rate, represents non-labor income, the parameter . > 0 is an (inverse) index of the disutility of
work, and without loss of generality the amount of available time is normalized to 1.8 Optimal leisure is then L = 1 - .w.
Standard mainstream economics. Pick up an issue of the American
Economic Review - it’s funnier than SNL is these days. Fuck their
theory; the empirical parts are interesting.
Hamermesh has some fun stuff on beauty in the labor market. Check it
out. That’s not so funny.
Doug