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Commuting time and household responsibilities : evidence using propensity score matching

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2015

The growth in women's participation in the labor force has attracted attention to the gender differences in commuting behavior, and to their implications. This study analyses the relationship between individual commuting behavior and household responsibilities, with a focus on gender differences...

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Extended income inequality and poverty dynamics of labour market and household activities : a ten years microanalysis with the German socio-economic panel

Merz, Joachim; Kirsten, Dagmar - 1998

Labour market dynamics according the individual working hour tension (preferred working hours minus actual working hours) of active people with focus on the self-employed, as professions and entrepreneurs, and employees are investigated in our study. The individual longitudinal analysis based on...

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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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Marriage and Housework

Borra, Cristina - 2017

housework time between single and married individuals is causal and how much is due to selection. Using longitudinal data from … explain about half of the observed differences in housework documented in the cross-sectional data. There remains a genuine … two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men …

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Accounting for Total Work

Brandolini, Andrea - 2015

We analyse how accounting for household production could affect labour market statistics. This topic has grown in importance since the release of the new System of National Accounts in 2008. Because the traditional headcount ratios focussing on the number of people carrying out some home and...

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Specialization in same-sex and different-sex couples

Hofmarcher, Thomas; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2021

We examine time allocation decisions in same-sex and different-sex couples from a Beckerian comparative advantage perspective. In particular, we estimate the comparative advantage relationship between time spent on either market or household activities and a dummy for being the highest earner in...

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Do Constraints on Market Work Hours Change Home Production Efforts?

Li, Geng - 2009

We study variations in housework time and leisure consumption when workers are subject to labor market work hours … find that the ceilings on market work hours induce workers to increase time spent on housework, including cooking, and to … reduce vacation time. In contrast, floors on market work hours do not significantly affect time spent on housework, but may …

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Differences in Us-German Time Allocation : Why Do Americans Work Longer Hours than Germans?

Schettkat, Ronald - 2021

The conventional view is that Americans work longer hours than Germans and other Europeans but when time in household production is included, overall working time is very similar on both sides of the Atlantic. Americans spend more time on market work but German invest more in household...

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Valuing unpaid care work in Bhutan

Suh, Jooyeoun; Changa Dorji; Mercer-Blackman, Valerie; … - 2020

A growing body of scholarly literature has attempted to measure and value unpaid care work in various countries, but perhaps only the government statistical agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom have seriously undertaken periodic and systematic measures of the time spent on unpaid...

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The gender gap in time allocation in Europe

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2020

This article explores the gender gap in time allocation in Europe, offering up-to-date statistics and information on several factors that may help to explain these differences. Prior research has identified several factors affecting the time individuals devote to paid work, unpaid work, and...

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