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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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Marriage stability, taxation and aggregate labor supply in the U.S. vs. Europe

Chakraborty, Indraneel; Holter, Hans A.; Stepanchuk, Serhiy - 2012

Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro data from the U.S. and 17 European countries, we study the contributions from demographic subgroups to these aggregate level differences. We document that women are typically the largest contributors to the discrepancy in work hours. We also...

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Market Work, Home Production, Consumer Demand and Unemployment Among the Unskilled

Lührmann, Melanie; Weiss, Matthias - 2014

This paper introduces a new argument into the theoretical literature on labor market effects of changes in working hours and labor force participation. We advance a general equilibrium model in which increased labor supply reduces unskilled unemployment via consumer demand: longer work hours and...

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Heterogeneity and long-run changes in U.S. hours and the labor wedge

Cociuba, Simona E.; Ueberfeldt, Alexander - 2012

From 1980 until 2007, U.S. average hours worked increased by thirteen percent, due to a large increase in female hours. At the same time, the U.S. labor wedge, measured as the discrepancy between a representative household's marginal rate of substitution between consumption and leisure and the...

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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 parents' flexible working hours affect fathers' contribution to domestic work? : evidence from a factorial survey

Krug, Gerhard; Bähr, Sebastian; Diener, Katharina; … - 2020

Möglichkeit haben, ihre Arbeitszeit flexibel zu erbringen. Zweitens wird angenommen, dass Väter weniger beitragen, wenn ihre … Partnerinnen die Möglichkeit haben, ihre Arbeitszeit flexibel zu erbringen. Wir testen unsere Hypothesen anhand von Daten aus einer … zur Hausarbeit. Damit stützen die Ergebnisse Hypothese eins teilweise. In Bezug auf Hypothese zwei finden wir keine …

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What works for working couples? : work arrangements, maternal labor supply, and the division of home production

Ciasullo, Ludovica; Uccioli, Martina - 2024

We document how a change to work arrangements reduces the child penalty in labor supply for women, and that the consequent more equal distribution of household income does not translate into a more equal division of home production between mothers and fathers. The Australian 2009 Fair Work Act...

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Consumption and hours between the United States and France

Fang, Lei; Yang, Fang - 2021

We document large differences between the United States and France in allocations of consumption expenditures and time by age. Using a life-cycle model, we quantify to what extent tax and transfer programs and market and home productivity can account for the differences. We find that while labor...

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What determines women's labor supply? : the role of home productivity and social norms

Afridi, Farzana; Bishnu, Monisankar; Mahajan, Kanika - 2019

We highlight the role of home productivity in explaining the gender gap in labor force participation (LFP), and the non-monotonic relationship of women's LFP with their education in developing countries (India) in contrast to the developed economies (United Kingdom, U.K.). We construct a model...

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What Determines Women's Labor Supply? The Role of Home Productivity and Social Norms

Afridi, Farzana - 2019

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