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The importance and challenges of measuring work hours : measuring hours worked is important, but different surveys can tell different stories
Stewart, Jay Charles - 2014
Work hours are key components in estimating productivity growth and hourly wages as well as being a useful cyclical … work hours in several surveys and publishes three widely-used series that measure average weekly hours. The series tell … different stories about average weekly hours and trends in those hours but qualitatively similar stories about the cyclical …
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The effect of informal care on work and wages
Houtven, Courtney Harold Van; Coe, Norma B.; Skira, … - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 1, pp. 240-252
retired. For female care providers who remain working, we find evidence that they decrease work by 3–10hours per week and face … a 3 percent lower wage than non-caregivers. We find little effect of caregiving on working men's hours or wages. These …
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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women : as immigration lowers childcare and housework costs, nativie-born women alter their work and fertility decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2015
Many countries are reviewing immigration policy, focusing on wage and employment effects for workers whose jobs may be threatened by immigration. Less attention is given to effects on prices of goods and services. The effect on childcare prices is particularly relevant to policies for dealing...
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Measuring women's economic empowerment : time use data and gender inequality
Ferrant, Gaëlle; Thim, Annelise - 2019
Empowerment, co-ordinated jointly by the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate, the Development Centre and Statistics Directorate. The initiative aims to identify policy and programme solutions to promote women’s economic empowerment by recognising, reducing and redistributing women’s...
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Short-time work compensations and employment : temporary government schemes can have a positive economic effect
Cahuc, Pierre - 2014
Government schemes that compensate workers for the loss of income while they are on short hours (known as short …-time work compensation schemes) make it easier for employers to temporarily reduce hours worked so that labor is better matched …
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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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Household sharing and commitment : evidence from panel data on individual expenditures and time use
Lise, Jeremy; Yamada, Ken - 2014
In this paper, we analyze the nature of intra-household allocations and commitment using unique panel data on individual-specific within-household consumption expenditures and on time used for leisure, market production and home production. Specifically we estimate a dynamic collective model of...
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An exploration of the determinants of the subjective well-being of Americans during the Great Recession
Caldera Sánchez, Aida; Tassot, Caroline - 2014
positively correlated with happiness, while working more than 50 hours per week or spending time on health-related activities is …
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Improving well-being in the United States
Caldera Sánchez, Aida; Lenain, Patrick; Fleche, Sarah - 2014
toward even more concentration at the very top at the expense of the middle class and the poor. Working hours that remain …
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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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