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within the household, as measured by the female share of total household income, and women's involvement in housework. We … find that households in which the woman contributes more to the total household income are more likely to share housework … observed link between the female share of income and inequality between the partners in the division of housework. Women from …
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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...
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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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housework in heterosexual dual-earner couples. Relying on the second wave of Harmonised European Time Use Survey (HETUS) data … for 10 European countries, we estimate spousal relative worktime and housework to analyse within-couple time …-use arrangements. The results show that the disparity between a wife's and a husband's workhours is gradually narrowing, yet housework …
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Using data from the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003-2006, this paper finds that housework has a negative … relation with wages for both women and men. The negative relation between housework time and wages is not likely to arise from … omitted working conditions that are correlated with housework, nor from omitted effort. For women, the negative relation …
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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/10014051053
Although income inequality has been studied extensively, relatively little attention has been paid to the role of household production. Economic theory predicts that households with less money income will produce more goods at home. Thus extended income, which includes the value of household...
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the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews …
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Does housework reduce the market wage, and if so, does it have a similar impact for males and females? In this paper we … survey and evaluate the recent and growing empirical literature on the linkages between housework and the wage rate. The … standardized estimated effects of housework on the hourly wage across studies. We evaluate how this literature has addressed …
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Using micro data from 17 countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, this paper documents a negative cross-country correlation between gender ratios in market hours and wages. We find that market hours by women and the size of the service sector that produces close...
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