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Aggregate impacts of a gift of time
Lee, Jungmin; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011
work declined discretely. The economy-wide drops in market work were reallocated solely to leisure and personal maintenance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282259
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Measuring the relative productivity of multitasking to sole-tasking in household production: New experimental evidence
Foster, Gigi; Kalenkoski, Charlene - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283947
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A gift of time
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Lee, Jungmin; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2012
reduction in market time, with the free-up time in Japan reallocated to leisure and personal maintenance, while in Korea the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287669
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Differences in US-German Time-Allocation: Why Do Americans Work Longer Hours than Germans?
Schettkat, Ronald - 2003
The conventional view is that Americans work longer hours than Germans and other Europeans but when time in household production is included, overall working time is very similar on both sides of the Atlantic. Americans spend more time on market work but German invest more in household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262102
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Unemployment, market work and household production
Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2009
additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment … duration and the split of time between household production and leisure. U.S. data for 2003-2006 show that almost none of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269324
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Leisure inequality in the United States: 1965 - 2003
Sevilla, Almudena; Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Gershuny, … - 2012
) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure ('pure leisure', 'co-present leisure' and … 'leisure fragmentation') to show that the relative growth in leisure time enjoyed by less-educated individuals documented in … previous studies has been accompanied by a relative decrease in the quality of that leisure time. These results are not driven …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287648
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Institutions, social norms, and bargaining power: an analysis of individual leisure time in couple households
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Stratton, Leslie Sundt - 2008
posit that leisure time will be more sensitive to power considerations than housework time which may be more influenced by … supportive of these hypotheses, with leisure time on non-work days in the US being particularly responsive to economic power. In … enjoy more leisure time than would be suggested by their economic power alone. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276860
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With or without you: Divorce rates and intra-household allocation of time
Tabasso, Domenico - 2010
This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these investments in terms of childcare and household activities are likely to increase the marital surplus, they are consequently likely to decrease the risk of divorce. All such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278437
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Trends in hours and economic growth
Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - 2007
We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economic sectors driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. We focus on the substitutions between market and home production and on the structural transformation between agriculture, manufacturing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267775
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Cyclical variation in labor hours and productivity using the ATUS
Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Stewart, Jay … - 2012
We examine monthly variation in weekly work hours using data for 2003-10 from the Current Population Survey (CPS) on hours/worker, from the Current Employment Survey (CES) on hours/job, and from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) on both. The ATUS data minimize recall difficulties and constrain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291460