Reuben Gronau
Biographic Data
| ID | 1455256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reuben Gronau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reuben |
| FAMILY NAME | Gronau |
| SIGNATURE | GRONAU R |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Bureau of Economic Research |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 258 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Israeli Economy, 1995–2017
This book describes and analyses developments in the Israeli economy from 1995 to 2017. During this period, inflation was vanquished, the deficit in the balance of payments turned into a surplus, the public debt to GDP ratio sharply decreased, and unemployment has declined to an historical low. Nevertheless, the economy still suffers from many maladies: the productivity level is among the lowest in the developed world, and inequality has generall…
The Demand for Variety
Economists have devoted substantial attention to firms' supply of variety, but little to consumers' demand for variety. Employing the framework of home production, we trace differences in demand to differences in the opportunity costs of activities, associated with investments in human capital. Schooling alters time costs and changes the variety of activities household members choose. Time budgets from Australia, Israel, and West Germany show tha…
The Demand for Variety
Product diversity pervades every modern marketplace, and economists have devoted substantial attention to firms' decisions about the supply of variety. This study looks at the consumer's side by discussing the demand for variety. Using the framework of the home-production model, we trace differences in demand to differences in the opportunity costs of various activities. The cost differences are associated with investments in human capital; and t…
Optimal Road Capacity with a Suboptimal Congestion Toll
Consumption Technology and the Intrafamily Distribution of Resources
This paper shows that the definition and the measurement of adult equivalence scales depend crucially on the concept of welfare used. When welfare is the utility parents derive from their own consumption , one has to assume separability of parents' and children's consumption. This assumption implies that the only way of imputing the intrafamily allocation of resources is by observing the consumption patterns of adult goods. Regardless of the defi…
Inequality of Family Income
Recent decades have witnessed a sharp increase in the labor force participation of married women. This paper investigates the effect of wives earnings on family income distribution. In particular the author examines the impact of changes in the participation rate and of the earnings gap between wives and husbands on family income inequality in Israel. (EXCERPT)
Home Production--A Forgotten Industry
Introduction R ECENT years have witnessed an awakened interest in the economic activity taking place outside the market, and in particular the activity taking place at home.This interest spurred by the new consumption theory of Becker and Lancaster and by the estimates of the Measure of Economic Welfare of Nordhaus and Tobin (1973) has taken two distinct forms: an increased number of studies on the economics of household behavior and a renewed ef…
Leisure, Home Production, and Work--the Theory of the Allocation of Time Revisited
The paper tries to formalize the trichotomy of work in the market, work at home, and leisure. Time is used at home to produce home goods that are perfect substitutes for market goods, where home production is subject to diminishing marginal productivity. An increase in the market wage rate is expected to reduce work at home, while its effect on leisure and work in the market is indeterminate. An increase in income increases leisure, reduces work …
The Allocation of Time of Israeli Women
Wage Comparisons--A Selectivity Bias
The Effect of Children on the Housewife's Value of Time
The Effect of Traveling Time on the Demand for Passenger Transportation
Leisure, Home Production, and Work--the Theory of the Allocation of Time Revisited
The paper tries to formalize the trichotomy of work in the market, work at home, and leisure. Time is used at home to produce home goods that are perfect substitutes for market goods, where home production is subject to diminishing marginal productivity. An increase in the market wage rate is expected to reduce work at home, while its effect on leisure and work in the market is indeterminate. An increase in income increases leisure, reduces work …
Wage Comparisons--A Selectivity Bias
The Effect of Children on the Housewife's Value of Time
The Allocation of Time of Israeli Women
Consumption Technology and the Intrafamily Distribution of Resources
This paper shows that the definition and the measurement of adult equivalence scales depend crucially on the concept of welfare used. When welfare is the utility parents derive from their own consumption , one has to assume separability of parents' and children's consumption. This assumption implies that the only way of imputing the intrafamily allocation of resources is by observing the consumption patterns of adult goods. Regardless of the defi…
Inequality of Family Income
Recent decades have witnessed a sharp increase in the labor force participation of married women. This paper investigates the effect of wives earnings on family income distribution. In particular the author examines the impact of changes in the participation rate and of the earnings gap between wives and husbands on family income inequality in Israel. (EXCERPT)
Optimal Road Capacity with a Suboptimal Congestion Toll
The Effect of Traveling Time on the Demand for Passenger Transportation
The Effect of Children on the Housewife's Value of Time
Wage Comparisons--A Selectivity Bias
The Allocation of Time of Israeli Women
Leisure, Home Production, and Work--the Theory of the Allocation of Time Revisited
The paper tries to formalize the trichotomy of work in the market, work at home, and leisure. Time is used at home to produce home goods that are perfect substitutes for market goods, where home production is subject to diminishing marginal productivity. An increase in the market wage rate is expected to reduce work at home, while its effect on leisure and work in the market is indeterminate. An increase in income increases leisure, reduces work …
Home Production--A Forgotten Industry
Introduction R ECENT years have witnessed an awakened interest in the economic activity taking place outside the market, and in particular the activity taking place at home.This interest spurred by the new consumption theory of Becker and Lancaster and by the estimates of the Measure of Economic Welfare of Nordhaus and Tobin (1973) has taken two distinct forms: an increased number of studies on the economics of household behavior and a renewed ef…
Inequality of Family Income
Recent decades have witnessed a sharp increase in the labor force participation of married women. This paper investigates the effect of wives earnings on family income distribution. In particular the author examines the impact of changes in the participation rate and of the earnings gap between wives and husbands on family income inequality in Israel. (EXCERPT)
Consumption Technology and the Intrafamily Distribution of Resources
This paper shows that the definition and the measurement of adult equivalence scales depend crucially on the concept of welfare used. When welfare is the utility parents derive from their own consumption , one has to assume separability of parents' and children's consumption. This assumption implies that the only way of imputing the intrafamily allocation of resources is by observing the consumption patterns of adult goods. Regardless of the defi…
Optimal Road Capacity with a Suboptimal Congestion Toll
The Demand for Variety
Product diversity pervades every modern marketplace, and economists have devoted substantial attention to firms' decisions about the supply of variety. This study looks at the consumer's side by discussing the demand for variety. Using the framework of the home-production model, we trace differences in demand to differences in the opportunity costs of various activities. The cost differences are associated with investments in human capital; and t…
The Demand for Variety
Economists have devoted substantial attention to firms' supply of variety, but little to consumers' demand for variety. Employing the framework of home production, we trace differences in demand to differences in the opportunity costs of activities, associated with investments in human capital. Schooling alters time costs and changes the variety of activities household members choose. Time budgets from Australia, Israel, and West Germany show tha…
The Israeli Economy, 1995–2017
This book describes and analyses developments in the Israeli economy from 1995 to 2017. During this period, inflation was vanquished, the deficit in the balance of payments turned into a surplus, the public debt to GDP ratio sharply decreased, and unemployment has declined to an historical low. Nevertheless, the economy still suffers from many maladies: the productivity level is among the lowest in the developed world, and inequality has generall…
Economics (10 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Labour economics (4 works) · Microeconomics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Download (3 works) · Earnings (3 works) · Finance (3 works)