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Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production
Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822666
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Household Labor Supply and Home Services in a General-Equilibrium Model with Heterogeneous Agents
Bredemeier, Christian; Juessen, Falko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We propose a new explanation for differences and changes in labor supply by gender and marital status, and in particular for the increase in married women's labor supply over time. We argue that this increase as well as the relative constancy of other groups' hours are optimal reactions to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822591
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Commuting Time and Household Responsibilities: Evidence Using Propensity Score Matching
Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
The growth in women's participation in the labor force has attracted attention to the gender differences in commuting behavior, and to their implications. This study analyses the relationship between individual commuting behavior and household responsibilities, with a focus on gender differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011149771
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Labor Supply, Home Production and Welfare Comparisons
Donni, Olivier - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We consider the collective model of labor supply with marketable domestic production. We first show that, if domestic production is mistakenly ignored, the “collective” indirect utilities that are retrieved from observed behavior will be unbiased if and only if the profit function is...
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Trends in Hours and Economic Growth
Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economic sectors driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. We focus on the substitutions between market and home production and on the structural transformation between agriculture, manufacturing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700867
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Regional Unemployment, Gender and Time Allocation of the Unemployed
Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
unemployment rates. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-2003 and 2009-2010, we find that higher regional unemployment rates are … channel through which others' unemployment affects time allocation decisions of the unemployed. As higher regional … unemployment rates imply a lower availability of jobs for the unemployed, it decreases the expectations individuals have of finding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990932
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Unemployment, Growth and Fiscal Policy: New Insights on the Hysteresis Hypothesis
Raurich, Xavier; Sala, Hector; Sorolla, Valeri - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We develop a growth model with unemployment due to imperfections in the labor market. In this model, wage inertia and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822131
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The Distribution of Total Work in the EU and US
Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Using two time-diary data sets each for Germany, Italy the Netherlands and the U.S. from 1985-2003, we demonstrate that Americans work more than Europeans: 1) in the market; 2) in total (market and home production)-- there is no one-for-one tradeoff across countries in total work; 3) at unusual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703553
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Household Shocks and Education Investment in Madagascar
Glick, Peter; Sahn, David E.; Walker, Thomas F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper measured the extent to which households in Madagascar adjust children's school attendance in order to cope with exogenous shocks to household income, assets and labour supply. Our analysis was based on a unique data set with 10 years of recall data on school attendance and household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011106163
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Assortative Mating and Female Labor Supply
Bredemeier, Christian; Juessen, Falko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper investigates the pattern of wives' hours disaggregated by the husband's wage decile. In the US, this pattern has changed from downward-sloping to hump-shaped. We show that this development can be explained within a standard household model of labor supply when taking into account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466468