percent more of their disposable time on childcare. The results are generalizable to Germany as a whole. The paper provides …

the relationship between earnings and housework, the “economic exchange” and “gender display” hypotheses. Our … on housework has two basic flaws. First, it has focused on the effects of women’s shares of couples’ total earnings on … their housework, and has not considered the simpler possibility of an association between women’s absolute earnings and …

Management Review (now published as Gender in Management: An International Journal), published by and copyright Emerald. …The purpose of this paper is to examine the take up of gender-based equal opportunities policies and practices in small … interactive, questionnaire-based programme incorporating 60 questions on human resources policies and practices relevant to gender …

the first two empirical chapters, I examine the relationship between wives’ earnings and their time in housework, testing …’t Everything: Wives’ Earnings and Housework Time”, I use fixed-effects models and data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and … find that wives reduce housework time as their earnings rise. However, the effect is highly non-linear, with high …