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Burda, Michael; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Using time-diary data from 25 countries, we demonstrate that there is a negative relationship between real GDP per capita and the female-male difference in total work time per day - the sum of work for pay and work at home. In rich northern countries on four continents, including the United...

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'Doing What is Right': Researching Intimacy, Work and Family Life in Glasgow, 1945-1960

Innes, Sue; McKie, Linda - In: Sociological Research Online 11 (2006) 2

Understanding discursive shifts over the twentieth century in relation to family roles, paid work and care is essential to any critical review of contemporary family theory and policies. This paper charts aspects of these shifts. An analysis of case records of the Royal Scottish Society for the...

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Total Work, Gender and Social Norms

Burda, Michael C; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Using time-diary data from 25 countries, we demonstrate that there is a negative relationship between real GDP per capita and the female-male difference in total work time per day—the sum of work for pay and work at home. In rich northern countries on four continents there is no...

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Approaching the female labor supply from the unpaid work and non-work functions

K. Prodromídis, Pródromos-Ioánnis - In: International Journal of Manpower 35 (2014) 5, pp. 643-670

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the allocation of time to paid work, unpaid work and non-work by women in Britain in 1998-1999. To infer the labor supply from the other time-use expressions. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses weekly diary data to estimate the unpaid...

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Gender Gaps in Time Use: Pan-European Evidence from School Closures during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Elsner, Benjamin; Jindal, Manvi; Mascherini, Massimiliano; … - 2024

the time spent on paid work and increased the amount of time spent on household chores and leisure in roughly equal …

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Gender gaps in time use : pan-European evidence from school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic

Elsner, Benjamin; Jindal, Manvi; Mascherini, Massimiliano; … - 2024

the time spent on paid work and increased the amount of time spent on household chores and leisure in roughly equal …

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On the allocation of time : a quantitative analysis of the US and France

Duernecker, Georg; Herrendorf, Berthold - 2015 - First version: October 1, 2012, This version: April 22, 2015

leisure increased most in France and least in the U.S. Contrary to what standard theory predicts, home hours changed …

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Why work more? : the impact of taxes, and culture of leisure on labor supply in Europe

Mocan, Naci; Pogorelova, Luiza - 2015

We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of “culture of leisure” and taxes on labor …. We construct measures of "taste for leisure" in the country of origin of each immigrant father. We employ average and … leisure impact participation and hours worked. For men, taxes influence labor supply both at the intensive and the extensive …

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All work and no play? : the effects of ability sorting on students’ non-school inputs, time use, and grade anxiety

Wang, Liang Choon - 2014

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An empirical investigation of the impact of redistribution on leisure consumption in OECD countries

Guccio, Calogero; Mignosa, Anna - In: International journal of public policy 10 (2014) 6, pp. 296-314

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