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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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On the Optimality of Joint Taxation with Household Production

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Kreiner, Claus Thustrup - 2021

The existing literature suggests that the concern for economic efficiency calls for individual taxation of married couples with a higher rate on the primary earner. This paper reconsiders the choice of tax unit in the Becker model of household production, which includes previous analyses as...

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Microeconomic analysis of time-use data : did we reach the promised land?

Klevmarken, Anders - 1998

This paper surveys the last decade of micro-economic research using time-use data. Focusing on the household production model, time-use as an investment activity, and the distribution of extended income, issues of data collection, measurement errors, model specification and estimation as well as...

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Including unpaid household activities : an estimate of its impact on macroeconomic indicatores in the G7 economies and the way forward

Ven, Peter J. van de; Zwijnenburg, Jorrit; De Queljoe, … - 2018

The System of National Accounts, which provides information on important macroeconomic indicators such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP), household disposable income and final consumption, typically excludes the value of unpaid household activities. Exceptions are made for the production of goods...

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How has the two-day weekend policy affected labour supply and household work in China?

Fang, Tony; Lin, Carl; Tang, Xueli - 2018

This paper examines the effects of working time reduction policy on labour supply (hours of work and whether an individual takes a second job) and household production, by exploiting the Chinese Two-Day Weekend Policy, which effectively reduced weekly working days from six to five in May 1995,...

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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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Home Production and Wages : Evidence from the American Time Use Survey

Hersch, Joni - 2009

Using data from the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003-2006, this paper finds that housework has a negative relation with wages for both women and men. The negative relation between housework time and wages is not likely to arise from omitted working conditions that are correlated with...

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Marriage, Labor Supply, and Home Production : A Longitudinal Microeconomic Analysis of Marriage, Intra-Household Bargaining and Time Use Using the BHPS, 1991-2008

Goussé, Marion; Jacquemet, Nicolas; Robin, Jean-Marc - 2018

We extend the search-matching model of the marriage market of Shimer and Smith (2000) to allow for labor supply, home production, match-specific shocks and endogenous divorce. We study nonparametric identification using panel data on marital status, education, family values, wages, and market...

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Time for Clean Energy? Cleaner Fuels and Women's Time in Home Production

Afridi, Farzana; Debnath, Sisir; Dinkelman, Taryn; … - 2022

In much of the developing world, cooking accounts for most of women's time in home production. Does reliance on biomass for cooking drive this time burden? To assess time-savings from shifting towards cleaner fuels, we revisit a clean energy information experiment in rural India. Treatment...

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Marriage : For Love, for Money….And for Time?

Vernon, Victoria - 2010

estimate significant marriage effects upon time use. Most married women gain 33-34 minutes of leisure each weekday when … compared to single women. While marriage does not lead to more leisure for husbands, it allows them to allocate time away from … home and towards market work. Lower-income couples work more at home and for pay, and spend less time in leisure than their …

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