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mothers to reduce their weekly working hours without renouncing their permanent contract, hence maintaining a regular schedule …. Second, with this work arrangement, working mothers' child penalty declined from a 47 percent drop in hours worked to a 38 …
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Across countries, women and men allocate time differently between market work, domestic services, and care work. In this paper, we document the gender division of work, drawing on a new harmonized data set that provides us with high-quality time use data for 50 countries spanning the global...
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This paper examines the role of home production in estimating life-cycle labor supply. I show that, consistent with previous studies, ignoring an individual's time spent on home production when estimating the Frisch elasticity of labor supply biases its estimate downwards. I also show, however,...
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longer hours and experiencing time pressures. Whilst the effect of most personality traits is consistent with a rational … paid and more unpaid hours) and discuss implications for both labour market discrimination and labour supply theory. …
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activities, and also in their offered or earned wages. They interact in their choices of market hours, homework, and leisure. We … techniques. We generate gender-specific own- and cross-wage elasticities of market hours in the cross-section. Elasticities are …
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We examine time allocation decisions in same-sex and different-sex couples from a Beckerian comparative advantage perspective. In particular, we estimate the comparative advantage relationship between time spent on either market or household activities and a dummy for being the highest earner in...
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This article explores the gender gap in time allocation in Europe, offering up-to-date statistics and information on several factors that may help to explain these differences. Prior research has identified several factors affecting the time individuals devote to paid work, unpaid work, and...
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significantly more, since the additional hours women work in the labour market are not counterbalanced by a relevant reduction in … their other labour activities. For men, we do not find any significant effect of price changes on hours of work. …
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This paper examines the effects of working time reduction policy on labour supply (hours of work and whether an … predicts a decline in labour supply in both private and public sectors as work hours were reduced. In theory, the time spent on … a difference-in-differences strategy to estimate the policy effects on work hours of wage earners in both public and …
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This paper presents the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the analysis of the interaction between second earner wage differences, variation in the price of child care and...
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