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This study provides a comparison of the size and value of unpaid family care work in two European member States, Italy …, in Italy the number of people performing family care work is higher, also due to the larger population. Italians …. However, the huge difference in the value of unpaid family care work, which in Italy exceeds the value of Poland by about …
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of the standard hypothesis that performing housework does not bring utility. Parents' market time responds positively to … to an increase in their wife's wage. Non-labour income reduces paid work by parents and increases their non-market time …. Higher-educated and older parents spend more time with their children. There are significant and positive correlations across …
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This paper considers the question posed by popular media, do women like doing child care more than men? Using experienced emotions data paired with 24 hour time diaries from the 2010 American Time Use Survey, the paper explores gender differences in how men and women who have done some child...
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We present a household production model that incorporates multitasking and results from a customized experiment designed to measure the individual-specific productivity parameters from this model. We observe these productivity parameters under alternative incentive scenarios, designed to mimic...
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that single parents in both countries spend more time in child care than married or cohabiting parents. There are … differences, however, in market work with single parents in the U.S. working more than other parents and single parents in the U …
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The Influence of Wages on Parents’ Allocations of Time to Child Care and Market Work in the United Kingdom …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between time allocation decisions of the unemployed, gender, and regional unemployment rates. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-2003 and 2009-2010, we find that higher regional unemployment rates are associated with increases in the time devoted to study...
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changes in time spent with parents; but results vary significantly by race. In addition, Hispanic males gained weight during …
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This paper discusses research questions related to immigrants' time use, reviews conceptual and methodological approaches to examining time allocations, and reviews evidence from previous studies. It provides new descriptive evidence, using time-diary data from the American Time Use Survey....
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Economists have previously suggested that gains from marriage can be generated by complementarities in production (gains from specialization and exchange) or by complementarities in consumption (gains from joint consumption of household public goods and joint time consumption). This paper uses...
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