We analyse how self-employed and employed mothers allocate their time throughout the day in order to balance their work and family responsibilities. To that end, we use time diary information from Spain, a country with a low level of women's participation in the labour market (Spanish Time Use...

The objective of this paper is to check Spanish data on consumption expenditures and leisure for consistency with maximization of a non-satiated, continuous, concave, monotonic utility function. To this end, we apply the non-parametric approach using annual time-series covering the period 1964...

The paper analyses the wage differentials among different Spanish regions. Hedonic wage equations are first formulated for those regions and then the wage decomposition method is applied, which allows separation of the effects due to characteristics from those due to returns. The results show...

This paper tests whether tobacco consumption generates addiction in Spanish people and, if so, then whether such addiction can be explained in the context of rational addiction theory. To that end, time-series data of per-capita consumption and prices of tobacco during the period 1964 to 1995...

In this paper the implications of unemployment on labour supply and goods demand functions in Spain are analysed during the period 1964-91. To this end, the labour supply and goods demand is jointly modelled using a dynamic linear expenditure system under the condition that labour supply has...

In this paper we analyse the effects of price changes on consumers' cost of living, using true indices for Germany, France, the UK, Spain and Sweden. We define these indices for a PIGLOG cost function and a dynamic specification of the LAIDS allows us to estimate them using aggregated...

This article analyses the intrahousehold allocation of time in households headed by heterosexual couples to show gender differences in childcare in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. Using data for the five sample countries from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP; 1994-2001)...