The time devoted to housework in couple households is substantial. Research on intrahousehold time allocations has … generally assumed that housework is a necessary evil and that the partner with the lower opportunity cost of time in the market …

. For both men and women those who enter from unemployment or inactivity are less successful in terms of income and the … among men who are economically inactive and lowest among women who are wage-earners. Analysing self-employment performance … employment status prior to entering self-employment. As performance measures we use income from self-employment, number of …

flexible multi-state Mixed Proportional Hazard specifications for transition rates between employment, unemployment, and … welfare/non-participation. Our main finding is that after longer periods of employment with high income, individuals …' transition rates from unemployment to employment increase. Longer periods of non-employment generally decrease future transition …

than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as … satisfied than are employees, one consistent interpretation of the above is that the barriers to self-employment have grown in …

countries on four continents, including the United States, there is no difference - men and women do the same amount of total … wages), as women's total work is further below men's where their relative wages are lower. Additional tests using U.S. and …'s where both men and women believe that scarce jobs should be offered to men first. …

fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women … respectively, with the effect of mother's fertility and labor supply larger than that of women from the father's source country … stronger effect of father's than mother's education. Second-generation women's schooling levels are negatively affected by …

worsening of unemployment conditions (discouraged worker effect). We find that married women whose husbands are unemployed or …This article analyzes married women's labor supply responses to their husbands' job loss (added worker effect) and … likely to increase their labor force participation. However, a worsening of overall unemployment conditions appears to have a …

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 …

associated with increases in the time devoted to study by men, and to household production by women, and with decreases in the … time devoted to personal care by men and leisure by women. We also find evidence favoring consumption smoothing as the … unemployment rates. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-2003 and 2009-2010, we find that higher regional unemployment rates are …