The city has far more to offer, even if hours of lounging in the Jardin were nearly enough for us.
Under the current system, hospital trusts can be fined if hours logged by doctors show they were made to work excessively exhausting lengths of time – although in practice many, like Dr Wright, voluntarily ignore their break periods.
It feels, in retrospect, as if hours stretched ahead, as we sat in the bedroom together, he on a folding chair near the sash window, his mug of tea cradled in his hands, the widowmaker at his feet; myself on the edge of the bed, over which I had hastily dragged the duvet to tidy it.
Family Credit was payable to low income families but only if hours of work exceed some level (24 hours over the period of our analysis).
I created this proxy variable to use as a dummy variable of respite care, which took on the value of 1 if hours spent on caregiving exceeded work hours in the previous year and work hours exceeded hours spent on caregiving this year; otherwise it took on the value of 0. 18.
Instead, I created a proxy variable of formal care use as a dummy variable of respite care, which took on the value of 1 if hours spent on caregiving exceeded work hours in the past year and work hours exceeded hours spent on caregiving this year.
It can be shown that under some reasonable assumptions (see Appendix), if hours worked is a proxy for x, own labor supply should be negatively related to own BMI –the intuition being that x and BMI are substitutes in determining the attractiveness of an individual– and that the ratio of coefficients on own and spousal BMI should be positive.
This assumption creates a direct mapping from work hours into disability benefits: individuals receive disability insurance benefits (( b )) if hours of work (( L=T-l ), where ( T ) denotes the maximum time available for either leisure activities or work) fall below a certain threshold (( tau )).
If hours worked were decreasing over that time, then the observed differences may understate the true difference between MABEL respondents and the population.
Some trainees also agreed that limited hours undermined professional autonomy, a feeling exacerbated if hours were enforced during the periodic 2-week monitoring process.
Sleep disturbance was classified as high if hours of sleep were <6 or >9 h per night, sleep quality was rated quite bad or extremely bad, and they frequently or always had difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep.
