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The gender division of work across countries
Gottlieb, Charles; Doss, Cheryl R.; Gollin, Douglas; … - 2024
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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Economic Growth and Business Cycles : The Labor Supply Decision with Two Types of Technological Progress
Graves, Philip E. - 2011
An informal model is described that leads to multiple macroeconomic equilibria as a consequence of random variation in the relative amounts of technological change for new and existing goods. The novel observation is that the rate of introduction and market penetration of new goods vis-a-vis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012756204
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Chapter 4. The Macroeconomics of Time Allocation
Aguiar, M.; Hurst, E. - In: Handbook of macroeconomics : volume 2, v. 2A-2B SET, (pp. 203-253). 2016
care, and leisure. The chapter concludes with a discussion of why these patterns are important to macroeconomics and spells …
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Inequality and the life cycle
Kaplan, Greg - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 3 (2012) 3, pp. 471-525
I structurally estimate an incomplete markets life-cycle model with endogenous labor supply using data on the joint distribution of wages, hours, and consumption. The model is successful at matching the evolution of both the first and second moments of the data over the life cycle. The key...
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Gender inequalities in allocating time to paid and unpaid work : evidence from Bolivia
Medeiros, Marcelo C. (contributor);  … - 2007
This working paper analyzes paid and unpaid work-time inequalities among Bolivian urban adults using time use data from a 2001 household survey. We identified a gender-based division of labor characterized not so much by who does what type of work but by how much work of each type they do. There...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003727000
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Time Use Dynamics in Paid Work and Household Activities of Married Women - A Panel Analysis with Household Information and Regional Labour Demand
Merz, Joachim - 2009
The dynamics of multiple time use in paid work and in household activities with housework, child rearing and DIY of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159060
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Specialization in same-sex and different-sex couples
Hofmarcher, Thomas; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2021
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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Do Constraints on Market Work Hours Change Home Production Efforts?
Li, Geng - 2009
We study variations in housework time and leisure consumption when workers are subject to labor market work hours … find that the ceilings on market work hours induce workers to increase time spent on housework, including cooking, and to … reduce vacation time. In contrast, floors on market work hours do not significantly affect time spent on housework, but may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012718218
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Differences in Us-German Time Allocation : Why Do Americans Work Longer Hours than Germans?
Schettkat, Ronald - 2021
The conventional view is that Americans work longer hours than Germans and other Europeans but when time in household production is included, overall working time is very similar on both sides of the Atlantic. Americans spend more time on market work but German invest more in household...
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Do parents' flexible working hours affect fathers' contribution to domestic work? : evidence from a factorial survey
Krug, Gerhard; Bähr, Sebastian; Diener, Katharina; … - 2020
This paper investigates the impact of fathers' flexible working hours on their willingness to contribute to domestic work. We first hypothesize that fathers will contribute more if they have the possibility to work flexible hours. Second, fathers are assumed to contribute less if their female...
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