The purpose of the research is to study the substitution of purchasing restaurant meals for the wife's housework time. Based on the theory of time allocation, the wife's housework time was analyzed and the substitution and income effects were empirically estimated.

The objectives of this study were to investigate the determinants of employed women's allocation of time for housework, market work, and commuting; to compare the time allocation by women and men in relation to their hourly wages; and also to compare the time allocation of women in...

Doctor of Philosophy

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-07, Section: A, page: 2569.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-04, Section: B, page: 2164.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-07, Section: A, page: 2689.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-06, Section: B, page: 3103.

This research focuses on the current shortage of young workers as a result of the baby bust cohort now entering the labor force. Previous studies have shown that the young workers of the baby boom cohort experienced lower relative earnings and higher unemployment because of their large cohort...

Commentaries have been made on the increasing influence of human resource management (HRM) in organizations. However, the role of the human resource (HR) department in this development has not been examined. This study investigates the sources of power of the HR department, and accounts for...

Traditional neoclassical microeconomic theory views the production function as a "black box" where homogenous inputs go in and output comes out. Differences in labor productivity between firms are mainly due to technological constraints facing the firm.