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The gender division of work across countries

Gottlieb, Charles; Doss, Cheryl R.; Gollin, Douglas; … - 2024

Across countries, women and men allocate time differently between market work, domestic services, and care work. In this paper, we document the gender division of work, drawing on a new harmonized data set that provides us with high-quality time use data for 50 countries spanning the global...

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Not working at work : loafing, unemployment and labor productivity

Burda, Michael C.; Genadek, Katie R.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015

Using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) 2003-12, we estimate time spent by workers in non-work while on the job. Non-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While the average time spent by workers in non-work conditional on any positive non-work rises...

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Keeping up with the Joneses : income comparisons and labour supply ; conference paper

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2013 - Preliminary version August 07, 2013

working hours and/or overtime. In the empirical analysis we rely on novel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP …

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Empirical Analysis of Time in Relation to Economic Development. A System of Time Accounts

CARAGEA, NICOLETA - In: Romanian Journal of Economics 31 (2010) 2(40), pp. 94-106

The paper proposes a new approach to the relation between socio-economic development and time. Measuring the economic development of a country by GDP it is obvious that the indicator is an insufficient measure in order to illustrate the progress of the society. National Time Accounting is a set...

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Hours of Work and Time Use of Employment People in Estonia and Finland

Romppanen, Antti; Aedna, Elmar - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 1992

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Emulation, inequality, and work hours : was Thorsten Veblen right?

Bowles, Samuel; Park, Yongjin - 2004

We investigate Veblen effects on work hours, namely the way that a desire to emulate the consumption standards of the … rich induces longer work hours among the rest. Consistent with our model of these asymmetric social comparisons, greater … inequality predicts longer work hours in ten OECD countries over the period 1963-1998. The country fixed effects estimates of the …

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Intra-household work time synchronization : togetherness or material benefits?

Klaveren, Chris van; Maassen van den Brink, Henriëtte - 2005

work schedules and does this result in work time synchronization?; (2) which partners synchronize more work hours?; and (3 …) is there a preference for togetherness? We find that coordination results in more synchronized work hours. The presence …

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Is the allocation of time gender sensitive to food price changes? : an investigation of hours of work in Uganda

Campus, Daniela; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2016

significantly more, since the additional hours women work in the labour market are not counterbalanced by a relevant reduction in … their other labour activities. For men, we do not find any significant effect of price changes on hours of work. …

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Revisiting the role of home production in life-cycle labor supply

Faberman, R. Jason - 2015

This paper examines the role of home production in estimating life-cycle labor supply. I show that, consistent with previous studies, ignoring an individual's time spent on home production when estimating the Frisch elasticity of labor supply biases its estimate downwards. I also show, however,...

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Split or straight? : evidence of the effects of work schedules on workers' well-being, time use, and productivity

González Chapela, Jorge - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 6 (2015) 2, pp. 153-177

About half of all employees in Spain are on a daytime split work schedule, i.e. they typically work for 5 h in the morning, take a 2-hour break at lunch time, and work for another 3 h in the afternoon/evening. This paper studies the effects of split work schedule on workers' psychological...

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