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The dynamics of multiple time use in paid work and in household activities with housework, child rearing and DIY of … (1984-1987), where information of the household - including the husband's employment situation - is merged with regional …
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perspective. In particular, we estimate the comparative advantage relationship between time spent on either market or household … less per day on household work, regardless their sexual orientation. We therefore conclude that, from a comparative …
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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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We investigate the effects of demographics, household expenditure and female employment on the allocation of household … interactions between household expenditure and demographics are of significant importance in explaining the allocation to consumer …
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Unpaid work, which falls outside of the national income accounts but within the general production boundary, is viewed as either "care" or as "work" by experts. This work is almost always unequally distributed between men and women, and if one includes both paid and unpaid work, women carry much...
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We present a model of the time-allocation decision of spouses in order to study the role of heterogeneity in preferences and wages for couples' labor supply. Spouses differ in their tastes for market consumption and non-market goods and activities, and also in their offered or earned wages. They...
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This paper revisits the added worker effect. Using bivariate random-effects probit estimation on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel we show that women respond to their partners' unemployment with an increase in labor market participation, which also leads to an increase in their...
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We use a lab-in-the-field experiment to investigate intra-couple labor supply decisions and the division of housework … decide upon the allocation of an unpaid task serving as our proxy for housework. In our gender neutral lab, we find tax …-effects only on men’s labor supply but not on women’s and no gender differences in the allocation of housework. Instead, the …
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To investigate the role of gender norms in household specialisation choices, I conduct a lab experiment with real …
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their household is judged according to the patriarchal model attributing the role of the breadwinner to men; (2) division of … housework, with women, even if working, holding the main responsibility for housekeeping activities, is perceived as “fair …
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