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Commuting time and household responsibilities : evidence using propensity score matching

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2015

The growth in women's participation in the labor force has attracted attention to the gender differences in commuting … behavior, and to their implications. This study analyses the relationship between individual commuting behavior and household …, we analyze the relationship between commuting time, and the time devoted to home production and childcare. To deal with …

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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women : as immigration lowers childcare and housework costs, nativie-born women alter their work and fertility decisions

Furtado, Delia - 2015

Many countries are reviewing immigration policy, focusing on wage and employment effects for workers whose jobs may be threatened by immigration. Less attention is given to effects on prices of goods and services. The effect on childcare prices is particularly relevant to policies for dealing...

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How do parents allocate time?

Bloemen, Hans G.; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2008

This paper focuses on the time allocation of spouses and the impact of economic variables. We present a stylized model of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model simultaneously specifies three time-use choices -paid...

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Secondary childcare in the ATUS : what does it measure?

Stewart, Jay Charles; Allard, Mary Dorinda - 2015

Unlike most of the earlier U.S. time-use surveys, the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) does not collect information on secondary activities. It does, however, include a set of questions asking respondents to identify times when a child under 13 was "in your care." The goal of these questions is...

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Optimal taxation, child care and models of the household

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2014

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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Time allocation of married mothers and fathers in hard times : the 2007 - 09 US recession

Berik, Günseli; Kongar, Ebru - In: Feminist economics 19 (2013) 3, pp. 208-237

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If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands : how do mothers and fathers really feel about child caregiving?

Connelly, Rachel; Kimmel, Jean - 2013

This paper considers the question posed by popular media, do women like doing child care more than men? Using experienced emotions data paired with 24 hour time diaries from the 2010 American Time Use Survey, the paper explores gender differences in how men and women who have done some child...

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Does work-time flexibility really improve the reconciliation of family and work? : conference paper

Scheffel, Juliane - 2013

Temporal work flexibility is often viewed as means to improve the reconciliation of family and work. By exploiting theGerman re-unification and the particularities of the labor market of the German Democratic Republic, I show that flexitime allows mothers to spend more time with their children....

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The stress cost of children

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Wooden, Mark - 2015

We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how demographic events affect perceived time and financial stress. Consistent with the view of measures of stress as proxies for the Lagrangean multipliers in models of household production,...

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Counting care work in social policy : Valuing unpaid child- and eldercare in Korea

Yoon, Jayoung - In: Feminist economics 20 (2014) 2, pp. 65-89

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