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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 … lower amount of market work in areas of long-term high unemployment is offset by additional household production. In … contrast, in those areas where unemployment has risen cyclically reduced market work is made up almost entirely by additional …
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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 average to about half as much time as is spent on paid employment. Women bear the brunt of this burden, a difference that is driven in part by the gender differential in wages....
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Including unpaid household activities : an estimate of its impact on macroeconomic indicatores in the G7 economies and the way forward
Ven, Peter J. van de; Zwijnenburg, Jorrit; De Queljoe, … - 2018
The System of National Accounts, which provides information on important macroeconomic indicators such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP), household disposable income and final consumption, typically excludes the value of unpaid household activities. Exceptions are made for the production of goods...
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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Optimal Taxation of Married Couples with Household Production
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Kreiner, Claus Thustrup - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 63 (2007) 4, pp. 498-518
The literature suggests that the concern for economic efficiency calls for individual-based taxation of married couples with a higher rate on the primary earner. This paper reconsiders the choice of tax unit in the Becker model of household production. In the absence of restrictions on the use...
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Trends in Hours and Economic Growth
Ngai, Liwa Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We study long-run trends in aggregate market hours of work and shifts across economic sectors within the context of balanced aggregate growth. We show that a model of many goods and uneven TFP growth in market and home production can rationalize the observed falling or U-shaped aggregate hours...
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Trends in Hours and Economic Growth
Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 11 (2008) 2, pp. 239-256
We study substitutions between home and market production over long periods of time. We use the results to get predictions about long-run trends in aggregate market hours of work and about employment shifts across economic sectors, driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. The...
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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
In this chapter we explore the macroeconomics of time allocation. We begin with an overview of the trends in market hours in the United States, both in the aggregate and for key subsamples. After introducing a Beckerian theoretical framework, the chapter then discusses key empirical patterns of...
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Fertility, income and welfare in an OLG model with regulated wages
Fanti, Luciano; Gori, Luca - In: International Review of Economics 54 (2007) 4, pp. 405-427
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National Minimum Wages, Capital Mobility and Global Economic Growth
Irmen, Andreas; Wigger, Berthold - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
the emergence of national unemployment due to minimum wages. Interestingly, differences in national savings propensities …
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