In this paper we compare gender differences in the allocation of time to market work, domestic work, child care, and … countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the extent to which gender differences and life cycle variation in time use …

We study whether cultural attitudes towards gender, the young, and leisure are significant determinants of the … evolution over time of the employment rates of women and of the young, and of hours worked in OECD countries. Beyond controlling … do all this we find that culture still matters for women employment rates and for hours worked. However, policies and …

they will have low earnings; single women; women in couples; and men in couples. Over a 15-month period, boosting the …

Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labour supply. This paper examines the strength of those …

proportion of working women employed part-time and Australia tops the OECD league in terms of its proportion of working men who … individual heterogeneity has been taken into account, part-time men and women typically earn an hourly pay premium. This premium …

proportion of working women employed part-time and Australia tops the OECD league in terms of its proportion of working men who …. Instead, part-time men and women typically earn an hourly pay premium. This result survives our numerous robustness checks and …

and women from the British Household Panel Survey. We find that men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they … many hours they work. Life satisfaction is influenced only by whether or not they have a job. For women we are confronted … with a puzzle. Hours satisfaction and job satisfaction indicate that women prefer part-time jobs irrespective of whether …