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What determines women's labor supply? : the role of home productivity and social norms
Afridi, Farzana; Bishnu, Monisankar; Mahajan, Kanika - 2019
-monotonic relationship of women's LFP with their education in developing countries (India) in contrast to the developed economies (United … improve with own education. Our theoretical predictions match the data for India at low levels of women's education but over … market work at higher education levels in transition economies. Our analysis suggests that home productivity, along with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121546
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What determines women's labor supply? : the role of home productivity and social norms
Afridi, Farzana; Bishnu, Monisankar; Mahajan, Kanika - In: Journal of demographic economics : JODE 90 (2024) 1, pp. 55-87
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014485621
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014507757
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The Gender Division of Work across Countries
Gottlieb, Charles; Doss, Cheryl; 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534009
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What Determines Women's Labor Supply? The Role of Home Productivity and Social Norms
Afridi, Farzana - 2019
-monotonic relationship of women's LFP with their education in developing countries (India) in contrast to the developed economies (United … improve with own education. Our theoretical predictions match the data for India at low levels of women's education but over … market work at higher education levels in transition economies. Our analysis suggests that home productivity, along with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861285
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Household Specialization and the Labor-Supply Elasticities of Women and Men
Bredemeier, Christian - Staatswissenschaftliches Seminar, Wirtschafts- und … - 2015
This paper studies gender differences in the elasticity of labor supply in a model of household specialization. I show that household specialization implies larger Frisch elasticities for the partner that specializes in home production. Quantitatively, empirical time-use ratios alone imply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265559
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The Impacts of Firms' Technology Choice on the Gender Differences in Wage and Time Allocation: A Cross-Country Analysis
Shirai, Daichi; Nagamachi, Kohei; Eguchi, Naotaka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper investigates the impacts of firm technology choice on cross-country variations in gender gaps---particularly those variations in the wages and time devoted to home production. For this purpose, we construct a general equilibrium model that includes firm technology choice and home...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108830
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Time allocation of daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law in India : the role of education as bargaining power
Bhattacharya, Leena - 2023
the first nationally representative Time Use Survey of India, 2019, the paper answers two questions. First, how does the …-in-law's time allocation across different activities, where their education levels are used as indicators of bargaining power? The …-reside with mothers-in-law who have completed at least secondary education. The mother-in-law's time allocated to household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014432205
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The effect of time-saving household appliance ownership on outcomes for children and married women : evidence from India
Bhargava, Smriti; Kerr, Amanda - In: IZA journal of labor policy 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-42
We use microlevel data from the India Human Development Survey to test our hypothesis that ownership of time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013368255
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The effect of time-saving household appliance ownership on outcomes for children and married women: Evidence from India
Bhargava, Smriti; Kerr, Amanda - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-42
We use microlevel data from the India Human Development Survey to test our hypothesis that ownership of time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014553729