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Total work and gender : facts and possible explanations

Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - 2012

Time-diary data from 27 countries show a negative relationship between real GDP per capita and female-male differences in total work time-work for pay and work at home. In rich non-Catholic countries on four continents men and women do about the same average amount of total work. Survey results...

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Health inequality and the uses of time for workers in Europe : policy implications

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 2, pp. 1-18

This paper analyses the relationship between health inequality and the time allocation decisions of workers in six European countries, deriving some important policy implications in the context of income tax systems, regulation of working conditions, and taxes on leisure activities. Using the...

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The determinants of housework time : boosting the efficiency of household production could have large economic effects

Stratton, Leslie S. - 2015

The time household members in industrialized countries spend on housework and shopping is substantial, amounting on average to about half as much time as is spent on paid employment. Women bear the brunt of this burden, a difference that is driven in part by the gender differential in wages....

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Self-employed individuals, time use, and earnings

Konietzko, Thorsten - 2012

This paper analyzes the time allocation of self-employed men and women compared to men and women in paid employment and the impact of house-work on earnings of self-employed individuals using data from two German datasets. Self-employed women spend more time on housework activities and...

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Time use dynamics in paid work and household activities of married women : a panel analysis with household information and regional labour demand

Merz, Joachim - 1992

Die Dynamik multipler Zeitverwendung in Beruf und Haushalt mit Hausarbeit, Kindererziehung und "Do … multinomialen Logit-Ansatz folgt eine selektivitätskorrigierte simultane Schätzung multipler Zeitverwendung (C3SLS). Mikrodatenbasis … Arbeitsnachfrage. -- Dynamik multipler Zeitverwendung ; Markt- und nichtmarktmäßige Aktivitäten ; Arbeitsangebot von Frauen ; Multiples …

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Common law marriage and male/female convergence in labor supply and time use

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - 2014

Does availability of common law marriage (CLM henceforth) in the U.S help explain variation in the labor force participation, hours of work and hours of household production of men and women over time and across states? As CLM offers more legal protection to household producers at the margin...

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Voluntary activities and daily happiness in the US

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2015

This paper analyzes differences in daily happiness between those individuals in the United States who perform voluntary activities during the day, and those who do not. Using the Well-Being Module of the American Time Use Survey 2010, we initially find that those who devote any time to voluntary...

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Commuting time and household responsibilities : evidence using propensity score matching

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2015

The growth in women's participation in the labor force has attracted attention to the gender differences in commuting behavior, and to their implications. This study analyses the relationship between individual commuting behavior and household responsibilities, with a focus on gender differences...

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Health status and the allocation of time : cross-country evidence from Europe

Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2014

This paper analyzes the relationship between reported health status and time allocation decisions in six European countries. Using the Multinational Time Use Study, we find that a better perception of own health is associated with less time devoted to sleep, personal care, and non-market work,...

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Regional unemployment, gender and time allocation of the unemployed

Gimenez-Nadal, Jose Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2012

This paper analyzes the relationship between time allocation decisions of the unemployed, gender, and regional unemployment rates. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-2003 and 2009-2010, we find that higher regional unemployment rates are associated with increases in the time devoted to study...

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