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Separate housework spheres
Jessen, Jonas; Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Sebastian; … - 2024
Using novel time-use data from Germany before and after reunification, we document two facts: First, spouses who both work full-time exhibit similar housework patterns whether they do so voluntarily or due to a full-time mandate, as in the GDR. Second, men's amount of housework is independent of...
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Leisure time and the measurement of economic welfare
Riddell, W. Craig - 1983
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Estimating a consumer demand system of energy, mobility and leisure : a microdata approach for Germany
Beznoska, Martin - 2014
relationship to the demand for leisure. Higher prices for energy goods like gas, electricity or fuel oil due to higher indirect …, respectively leisure demand effects for Germany. Using a demand system to estimate the price, cross-price and income effects of the … goods mobility, electricity, heating and leisure from microdata, there will also be accounted for the extensive demand for …
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Dissatisfied with life, but having a good day : time-use and well-being of the unemployed
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen; Schöb, Ronnie; … - 2009
We apply the Day Reconstruction Method to compare unemployed and employed people with respect to their subjective assessment of emotional affects, differences in the composition and duration of activities during the course of a day, and their self-reported life satisfaction. Employed persons are...
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Wealth shocks, credit-supply shocks, and asset allocation : evidence from household and firm portfolios
Kick, Thomas; Ruprecht, Benedikt; Onali, Enrico; … - 2014
We use a unique dataset with bank clients’ security holdings for all German banks to examine how macroeconomic shocks affect asset allocation preferences of households and non-financial firms. Our analysis focuses on two alternative mechanisms which can influence portfolio choice: wealth...
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Do couples pool their income? : evidence from demand system estimation for Germany
Beznoska, Martin - 2019
Whether couples pool their resources and behave like a unit or spend their income individually is crucial for social and tax policy. In this paper, I provide a test of the income pooling hypothesis using administrative cross-sectional survey data on expenditures and individual incomes of couple...
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The rise of part-time work : a German-French comparison
Marotzke, Petra - 2019
I study possible determinants of part-time employment among women in France and Germany using microdata of the Labour Force Survey. Voluntary part-time work is substantially more widespread among women in Germany than it is in France. Estimation results show that while the presence of children...
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Understanding global liquidity
Eickmeier, Sandra; Gambacorta, Leonardo; Hofmann, Boris - 2013
We explore the concept of global liquidity based on a factor model estimated using a large set of financial and macroeconomic variables from 24 advanced and emerging market economies. We measure global liquidity conditions based on the common global factors in the dynamics of liquidity...
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Management as a technology?
Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 2016
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