This paper provides insights into the gains of forming a couple by estimating how much of the difference in housework … about half of the observed differences in housework documented in the cross-sectional data. Further ancillary evidence … labour. There remains a genuine half-an-hour increase per week in housework time for each partner, with women specializing in …

the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews …

The dynamics of multiple time use in paid work and in household activities with housework, child rearing and DIY of …

housework in heterosexual dual-earner couples. Relying on the second wave of Harmonised European Time Use Survey (HETUS) data … for 10 European countries, we estimate spousal relative worktime and housework to analyse within-couple time …-use arrangements. The results show that the disparity between a wife's and a husband's workhours is gradually narrowing, yet housework …

engagement in paid and unpaid work reduces their leisure time considerably, especially in low-income households. Moreover, the … women's unpaid work and increases the leisure of all members of the household. …