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Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Since World War II there has been: (i) a rise in the fraction of time that married households allocate to market work, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. What can explain this? It is argued here that technological progress in the household...
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Hours Worked: Long-Run Trends
Greenwood, Jeremy; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
corresponding wealth effect; (ii) The enhanced value of time off from work, due to the advent of time-using leisure goods; (iii) The … reduced need for housework, due to the introduction of time-saving appliances. These mechanisms are incorporated into a model …
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Chapter 4. The Macroeconomics of Time Allocation
Aguiar, M.; Hurst, E. - In: Handbook of macroeconomics : volume 2, v. 2A-2B SET, (pp. 203-253). 2016
care, and leisure. The chapter concludes with a discussion of why these patterns are important to macroeconomics and spells …
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The determinants of housework time : boosting the efficiency of household production could have large economic effects
Stratton, Leslie S. - 2015
The time household members in industrialized countries spend on housework and shopping is substantial, amounting on … should also note the impact of tax policy on housework time and consider ways to reduce the distortions caused by sales and …
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Longevity and Lifetime Labour Input: Data and Implications
Hazan, Moshe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
The Ben-Porath (1967) mechanism suggests that prolonging the period during which individuals may receive returns on their investment spurs investment in human capital and causes growth. An important, albeit implicit implication of this mechanism is that the total labour input over a lifetime...
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Effects of labor taxes and unemployment compensation on labor supply in a search model with an endogenous labor force
Chen, Been-Lon; Lai, Chih-Fang - In: Journal of Macroeconomics 43 (2015) C, pp. 300-317
Labor taxes and unemployment compensation were blamed for causing relative declines in labor supply in the EU to the US in the past decades. We propose a model with an endogenous labor force and compare with the model with an exogenous labor force. Because of discouraging the labor force, labor...
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Are taxes a good predictor of time use patterns? : examining the role of some key elasticities
Gómez, Manuel A. - In: Economic modelling 55 (2016), pp. 394-400
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews …
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Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college educated ones. Divorce has increased, more so for the non-college educated. Additionally, positive assortative mating has risen. Income inequality among households has also widened. A...
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Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production
Burda, Michael C; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment … duration and the split of time between household production and leisure. U.S. data for 2003-2006 show that almost none of the …
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