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This paper analyzes the decision making process of adult children to provide informal care to their parents. First, we develop a structural model to explain the amount of time that only children (without siblings) spend on providing care, taking into account opportunity costs in terms of time...
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home production and labor supply. Time costs are computed in terms of hours of foregone leisure. The model accounts for … one child under age 3 is 1.9 hour for mothers and 2.2 hours for fathers. We find economies of scale for mothers but not …
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We examine monthly variation in weekly work hours using data for 2003-10 from the Current Population Survey (CPS) on … hours/worker, from the Current Employment Survey (CES) on hours/job, and from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) on both …. The ATUS data minimize recall difficulties and constrain hours of work to accord with total available time. The ATUS hours …
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weekend work would drop by about 10 percent if European workweeks prevailed. Even if no Americans worked long hours, the …
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(annualised hours), and generalised control of working hours. We find that in couples with flexitime there is greater spouse … increase couples' work time coordination. There is less evidence that broader control over working hours increases daily … synchronous working time and no evidence that annualised hours increase synchronous time on a daily basis. The weaker …
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I use data from the American Time Use Survey to examine how maternal employment affects when during the day that mothers of pre-school-age children spend doing enriching childcare and whether they adjust their schedules to spend time with their children at more-desirable times of day. I find...
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German time use data for 2001/02 are used to assess the impact of workplace characteristics on the private life of couples. The major aim is to solve the endogeneity resulting from individual preferences for work and leisure to identify the pure effects of the workplace independent from other...
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hours spread across a week and weekend etc. Whereas the first part of our study is describing the distribution of timing and …
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division into aggregated full and part time work, working hours spread across a week and weekend, life time working etc …
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We examine monthly variation in weekly work hours using data for 2003-10 from the Current Population Survey (CPS) on … hours/worker, from the Current Employment Survey (CES) on hours/job, and from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) on both …. The ATUS data minimize recall difficulties and constrain hours of work to accord with total available time. The ATUS hours …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009679523