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Total work and gender : facts and possible explanations
Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - 2012
, sociologists and the general public believe that women work more. The widespread average equality does not arise from gender … Surveys and sets of microeconomic data from Australia and Germany. -- time use ; gender differences ; household production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009427144
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Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production
Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822666
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Total Work and Gender: Facts and Possible Explanations
Burda, Michael; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2012
, sociologists and the general public believe that women work more. The widespread average equality does not arise from gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651908
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The time and timing costs of market work, and their implications for retirement
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2006
Retirement ages among older Americans have only recently begun to increase after a precipitous fifty-year decline. Early retirement may result from incentives provided by retirement systems; but it may also result from the rigidities imposed by market work schedules. Using the American Time Use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267507
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Unemployment, market work and household production
Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269324
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Evidence on unemployment, market work and household production
Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2009
Time-diary data from four countries suggest that differences in market time between the unemployed and employed represent additional leisure and personal maintenance rather than increased household production. U.S. data for 2003-2006 show that almost none of the reduction in market work in areas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270733
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The distribution of total work in the EU and US
Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - 2006
-for-one tradeoff across countries in total work; 3) at unusual times of the day and on weekends. In addition, gender differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271216
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Total work, gender and social norms
Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - 2007
facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured by market wages), as women's total work is … arise from differences in marital bargaining, as gender equality is not associated with marital status; nor do they stem … from family norms, since most of the variance in the gender total work difference is due to within-couple differences. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271946
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A Gift of Time
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Lee, Jungmin; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
How would people spend time if confronted by permanent declines in market work? We identify preferences off exogenous cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan around 1990 and Korea in the early 2000s. Using time-diaries from before and after these shocks,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265659
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Total work and gender: Facts and possible explanations
Burda, Michael; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - 2012
, sociologists and the general public believe that women work more. The widespread average equality does not arise from gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281481