McGrattan, Ellen R.; Rogerson, Richard - In: Frontiers of family economics : Vol. 1, (pp. 115-138). 2008
This paper describes trends in average weekly hours of market work per person and per family in the United States between 1950 and 2005. We disaggregate married couple households by skill level to determine if there is a pattern in the hours of work by wives and husbands conditional on either...