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particular implications for women's time use. In this paper, we document that current patterns of female time use in home … about women's time use in Africa. First, in North Africa, women spend very few hours in market work and female labor force … participation overall is extremely low. Second, although extensive margin participation of women is high in sub-Saharan Africa …
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Reducing gender-specific commuting barriers in developing countries has complex and diverse effects on women's labor … dynamics. We study a program that offers free bus rides for women in several Indian states (the Pink Slip program) using a … synthetic difference-in-differences approach to shed light on labor supply and time use decisions of women. We observe decreased …
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Using time-diary data from four countries we show that the unemployed spend most of the time not working for pay in additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment duration and the split of time between household...
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We use data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), covering both the recent recession and the pre-recessionary period, to explore how foregone market work hours are allocated to other activities over the business cycle. Given the short time series, it is hard to distinguish business cycle...
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Time Use Survey and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we document that heightened uncertainty increases housework and reduces … show that substitution between market and housework provides self-insurance to households, weakening precautionary savings … to higher inflation, particularly when uncertainty couples with policies redirecting time use towards housework (e …
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northern countries on four continents, including the United States, there is no difference -- men and women do the same amount … believe that women perform more total work. The facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured … by market wages), as women's total work is further below men's where their relative wages are lower. Additional tests …
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family policies on women's careers and children's wellbeing. There is to date little or no evidence of beneficial effects of …
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1975 to 2004, we analyze the response of single women's housework, labor supply, and other time to variation in tax and … participating in the labor force increases, market work increases and housework decreases, with the decrease in housework accounting … expenditures on market goods likely to substitute for housework increase in response to a greater incentive to join the labor force …
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By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to … time use to it. Widows differ from otherwise similar married women, especially from married women with working husbands, by … cutting back on home production, mainly food preparation and housework, mostly by engaging in less of it each day, not doing …
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Time use data facilitate deeper understanding of individual labor supply choices, especially for women, who are more …
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