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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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Has the digital divide been reversed? : evidence from five EU countries
Pantea, Smaranda; Martens, Bertin - 2013
use for specific purposes (leisure, improving human capital and obtaining goods and services). It uses a unique dataset … websites. Tertiary education has a negative effect on time spent on leisure websites and a positive effect on time spent on …
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Patterns of time use among older people
Ferranna, Maddalena; Sevilla, J. P.; Zucker, Leo; … - 2022
work, leisure, and personal care. We emphasize differences in time allocation between older (i.e., those aged 65+) and …
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Nobody to Play With? The Implications of Leisure Coordination
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Osberg, Lars - 2003
utility derived from leisure time often benefits from the presence of companionable others inside and outside the household … propensities to engage in associative activity depend on the availability of Suitable Leisure Companions outside the household. Our …
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Why work more? : the impact of taxes, and culture of leisure on labor supply in Europe
Mocan, Naci; Pogorelova, Luiza - 2015
We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of “culture of leisure” and taxes on labor …. We construct measures of "taste for leisure" in the country of origin of each immigrant father. We employ average and … leisure impact participation and hours worked. For men, taxes influence labor supply both at the intensive and the extensive …
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You Can’t Be Happier than Your Wife - Happiness Gaps and Divorce
Guven, Cahit - 2010
This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...
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Why Work More? The Impact of Taxes, and Culture of Leisure on Labor Supply in Europe
Mocan, Naci H. - 2015
We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of “culture of leisure” and taxes on labor …. We construct measures of "taste for leisure" in the country of origin of each immigrant father. We employ average and … attributes of the country of residence and country of ancestry.The results show that for women, both taxes and culture of leisure …
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Wie Europäer ihre Zeit nutzen : Zeitstrukturen und Zeitkulturen im Zeichen der Globalisierung
Garhammer, Manfred - 1999
Wie organisieren europäische Gesellschaften ihre soziale Zeit? Wie verändert sich mit der Integration Europas und mit der Globalisierung der Alltag? Diese Fragen werden auf einer umfangreichen empirischen Basis in vier Gesellschaften, in Deutschland, Großbritannien, Spanien und Schweden,...
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Have mobile devices changed working patterns in the 21st century? : a time-diary analysis of work extension in the UK
Mullan, Killian; Wajcman, Judy - In: Work, employment and society : a journal of the British … 33 (2019) 1, pp. 3-20
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