Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena; Bryan, Mark L. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007
lesser-studied and more direct effect of household activities on wages. In a broad economic sense, household activities … require effort, which decreases labour market productivity and thus wages. This paper first documents the relationship between … housework and wages in Britain and applies a variety of econometric techniques to pin down the effect of housework on wages. It …