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Unemployment, market work and household production
Burda, Michael C. (contributor);  … - 2009
Using time-diary data from four countries we show that the unemployed spend most of the time not working for pay in additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment duration and the split of time between household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796399
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Evidence on unemployment, market work and household production
Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2009
Time-diary data from four countries suggest that differences in market time between the unemployed and employed represent additional leisure and personal maintenance rather than increased household production. U.S. data for 2003-2006 show that almost none of the reduction in market work in areas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270733
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The Great Recession and unpaid work time in the United States : does poverty matter?
Khitarishvili, Tamar; Kim, Kijong - 2014
that, in addition to the shifts in own employment status, shifts in spousal employment status also played a considerable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358418
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Do immigrants pay a price when marrying natives? : lessons from the US Time Use Survey
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - 2020
Using the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003-18 we compare the allocation of time of native men and women married to immigrants with that of their counterparts in all-native couples. We find that when intermarried to a native some immigrant women pay an assimilation price to the extent...
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025339
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Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production
Burda, Michael C. - 2009
Using time-diary data from four countries we show that the unemployed spend most of the time not working for pay in additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment duration and the split of time between household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765212
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Market Work, Home Production, Consumer Demand and Unemployment Among the Unskilled
Lührmann, Melanie; Weiss, Matthias - 2014
This paper introduces a new argument into the theoretical literature on labor market effects of changes in working hours and labor force participation. We advance a general equilibrium model in which increased labor supply reduces unskilled unemployment via consumer demand: longer work hours and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014210825
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On the importance of household production in collective models : evidence from U.S. data
Donni, Olivier; Matteazzi, Eleonora - 2010
The present paper develops a theoretical model of labor supply with domestic production. It is shown that the structural components of the model can be identified without a distribution factor, thereby generalizing the initial results of Apps and Rees (1997) and Chiappori (1997). The theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003965636
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On the Importance of Household Production in Collective Models : Evidence from U.S. Data
Donni, Olivier - 2010
The present paper develops a theoretical model of labor supply with domestic production. It is shown that the structural components of the model can be identified without a distribution factor, thereby generalizing the initial results of Apps and Rees (1997) and Chiappori (1997). The theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141772
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Simulations of employment for individuals in LIMTCP consumption-poor households in Tanzania and Ghana, 2012
Masterson, Thomas; Kim, Kijong; Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2016
New methodology for producing employment microsimulations is introduced, with a focus on farms and household nonfarm … when household members are placed in paid employment. In this paper, we present a method for addressing the trade …-off between paid employment and the farm and nonfarm business activities individuals may already be engaged in. The implementation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011530534