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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
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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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 …
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Revisiting the role of home production in life-cycle labor supply
Faberman, R. Jason - 2015
This paper examines the role of home production in estimating life-cycle labor supply. I show that, consistent with previous studies, ignoring an individual's time spent on home production when estimating the Frisch elasticity of labor supply biases its estimate downwards. I also show, however,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509104
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Intra-Family Time Allocation to Housework : French Evidence
Anxo, Dominique - 2008
of housework time. Consistent with both bargaining and specialization models of the family, we find that the greater the … husband's share of labor income, the lower his share of housework time; the greater the wife's market hours, the lower his … housework time, but the larger his share of housework time. Treating market work as endogenous substantially lowers the size of …
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Predicting the effects of a sugar sweetened beverage tax in a household production model
Bordignon, Massimo; Xiang, Di; Zhan, Lue - 2018
We study the impact of a hypothetical tax on sugar - sweetened beverages (SSBs) on the US households' nutrients purchase, welfare change, and health benefit. Differently from the traditional approach, Food at Home(FAH) is here defined as a "home" good instead than a market good and consumers'...
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Structural transformation, marketization, and household production around the world
Bridgman, Benjamin; Duernecker, Georg; Herrendorf, Berthold - 2015 - This version: October 5, 2015
We provide evidence on household and market production in 36 countries since 1960. On average the household sector accounts for almost half of total hours worked. As GDP per capita increases, the employment share of household production in total hours worked initially declines and then hardly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348007
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Structural transformation, marketization, and household production around the world
Bridgman, Benjamin; Duernecker, Georg; Herrendorf, Berthold - 2015 - This version: October 5, 2015
We provide evidence on household and market production in 36 countries since 1960. On average the household sector accounts for almost half of total hours worked. As GDP per capita increases, the employment share of household production in total hours worked initially declines and then hardly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491936
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Polygamy and female labour supply in Senegal
Cudeville, Elisabeth; Guénard, Charlotte; Robilliard, … - 2017
In this paper, we explore the links between polygyny and female labour supply in Senegal using a nationally representative survey. In a reduced-form approach, we first measure the impact of polygyny on participation using a joint model of spouse participation. The identification of the impact of...
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Gender inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510148
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Structural transformation, marketization, and household production around the world
Bridgman, Benjamin; Duernecker, Georg; Herrendorf, Berthold - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406299