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mothers to reduce their weekly working hours without renouncing their permanent contract, hence maintaining a regular schedule …. Second, with this work arrangement, working mothers' child penalty declined from a 47 percent drop in hours worked to a 38 …
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about the length of their working hours. In this paper, their choice of hours is characterized as a conventional labor … supply decision and a familiar hours-wage relationship is derived. This is estimated using mill-year observations on the …-employed workers and with working hours in capitalist plywood mills. …
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Prior research suggests that gender differences in hours worked play an important role in the gender pay gap. Yet … common estimates of the wage returns to hours worked are close to zero, implying that hours differences cannot account much … for the gender wage gap, even though men work more hours than women on average. However, while the wage returns to hours …
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For a century, two labor market empirical regularities characterized the movements of the hours of work, employment …. Increases in employment substituted for reductions in hours per worker. The implied elasticities of hours and employment with … understanding movements in hours of work and in employment of these workers. …
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Using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) 2003-12, we estimate time spent by workers in non-work while on the job. Non-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While the average time spent by workers in non-work conditional on any positive non-work rises...
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Reforms that reduce alimony can affect married couples in two different ways. First, reduced alimony lowers the bargaining power of the payee, usually the wife. Second, reduced alimony lowers the incentives of wives to engage in the traditional male breadwinner model of household specialization....
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This chapter reviews the evidence on the relationship between telework and households' time allocation, drawing heavily on the empirical evidence from time diary data, and discusses the implications of telework for workers' productivity, wages, labor force participation, and well-being. Telework...
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Remote work is rapidly increasing in the United States. Using data on full-time wage and salary workers from the 2017–2018 American Time Use Survey Leave and Job Flexibilities Module, this paper examines the characteristics of teleworkers, the effects of teleworking on wages, and differences...
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Evidence from the American Time Use Survey 2003-12 suggests the existence of small but statistically significant racial/ethnic differences in time spent not working at the workplace. Minorities, especially men, spend a greater fraction of their workdays not working than do white non-Hispanics....
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Across countries, women and men allocate time differently between market work, domestic services, and care work. In this paper, we document the gender division of work, drawing on a new harmonized data set that provides us with high-quality time use data for 50 countries spanning the global...
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