focus on home hours, for a relatively large set of industrialized countries during the past 50 years. Three patterns emerge …. First, home hours have decreased in both the United States and European countries. Second, female time allocation … contributes more to the cross-country difference in both the trends and the levels of market hours and home hours per person …

more time with family on work-at-home days than office days. We do not find differences in workers' hours on average by …

dramatic increase in leisure time lies behind the relatively stable number of market hours worked (per working-age adult …) between 1965 and 2003. Specifically, we document that leisure for men increased by 6?8 hours per week (driven by a decline in … market work hours) and for women by 4?8 hours per week (driven by a decline in home production work hours). This increase in …

We examine monthly variation in weekly work hours using data for 2003-10 from the Current Population Survey (CPS) on … hours/worker, from the Current Employment Survey (CES) on hours/job, and from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) on both …. The ATUS data minimize recall difficulties and constrain hours of work to accord with total available time. The ATUS hours …