How do two-career couples manage in a one-career world?It's about Time examines this mismatch between outdated scripts and the experiences of dual-earner couples. It broadens our understanding of occupational and family career strategies couples use in light of the widening gap between their...

Das Problem der Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf betrifft längst nicht mehr nur Mütter: Auch engagierte Väter haben viele Hürden zu meistern. Moderne Väter bewegen sich im Spannungsfeld zwischen aktiver Vaterschaft, klassischer Rollenerwartung als Familienernährer und häufig...

In this paper an empirical model is developed where the collective household model is used as a basic framework to describe the time allocation problem. The collective model views household behavior as the outcome of maximizing a household utility function which is a weighted sum of the utility...