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Natives and migrants in home production : the case of Germany

Forlani, Emanuele; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Mendolicchio, … - 2016

women from the German Socio-Economic Panel and we merge them with the data on the share of female immigrants and other … regional labour market characteristics. We find that an increase of the share of female immigrants at the local level induces …

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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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A cross-state comparison of measures of subjective well-being

Song, Younghwan - 2015

Using data drawn from the 2010 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Module, this study examines the relationship between three measures of subjective well-being based on time-use data and an objective measure of well-being. Whereas the measures of affect – net affect and the U-index – are...

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Direct estimates of food and eating production function parameters for 2004 - 12 using an ATUS/CEX synthetic dataset

Khitarishvili, Tamar; Rios-Avila, Fernando; Kim, Kijong - 2015

This paper evaluates the presence of heterogeneity, by household type, in the elasticity of substitution between food expenditures and time and in the goods intensity parameter in the household food and eating production functions. We use a synthetic dataset constructed by statistically matching...

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Parental disability and teenagers' time allocation

Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2021

Using the 2003-2019 American Time Use Survey, we examine how living with a parent who has a work-limiting disability is related to teenagers' time allocation. For girls, we find that living with a disabled parent is associated with less time spent on educational activities, including both class...

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Racial/ethnic differences in non-work at work

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Genadek, Katie R.; Burda, Michael C. - 2017

Evidence from the American Time Use Survey 2003-12 suggests the existence of small but statistically significant racial/ethnic differences in time spent not working at the workplace. Minorities, especially men, spend a greater fraction of their workdays not working than do white non-Hispanics....

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Gendered patterns of time use over the life cycle : evidence from Turkey

Kongar, Ebru; Memiş, Emel - 2017

Using data from the 2006 Turkish Time-Use Survey, we examine gender differences in time allocation among married heterosexual couples over the life cycle. While we find large discrepancies in the gender division of both paid and unpaid work at each life stage, the gender gap in paid and unpaid...

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Time use, unemployment, and well-being : an empirical analysis using British time-use data

Hoang, Thi Truong An; Knabe, Andreas - 2019

We use nationally representative data from the UK Time-Use Survey 2014/2015 to investigate how a person's employment status is related to time use and cognitive and affective dimensions of subjective well-being. We find that unemployed persons report substantially lower levels of life...

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What makes an entrepreneur and does it pay? Native men, Turks, and other migrants in Germany

Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Constant, … - 2003

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self … the self-employed Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, ex- Yugoslavs, Polish or other East Europeans, including those immigrants …

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Are Asian Migrants Discriminated Against in the Labour Market? : A Case Study of Australia

Paul, Satya; Junankar, P. N. (Raja); Yasmeen, Wahida - 2004

panel data set, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (LSIA). This paper estimates models of the probability of …

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