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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews …
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How Does Household Production Affect Earnings Inequality? Evidence from the American Time Use Survey
Frazis, Harley; Stewart, Jay - 2007
Although income inequality has been studied extensively, relatively little attention has been paid to the role of household production. Economic theory predicts that households with less money income will produce more goods at home. Thus extended income, which includes the value of household...
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What is the Effect of Housework on the Market Wage, and Can it Explain the Gender Wage Gap?
Maani, Sholeh A.; Cruickshank, Amy A. - 2023
Does housework reduce the market wage, and if so, does it have a similar impact for males and females? In this paper we … survey and evaluate the recent and growing empirical literature on the linkages between housework and the wage rate. The … standardized estimated effects of housework on the hourly wage across studies. We evaluate how this literature has addressed …
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Gender inequalities in allocating time to paid and unpaid work : evidence from Bolivia
Medeiros, Marcelo C. (contributor);  … - 2007
This working paper analyzes paid and unpaid work-time inequalities among Bolivian urban adults using time use data from a 2001 household survey. We identified a gender-based division of labor characterized not so much by who does what type of work but by how much work of each type they do. There...
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The gender gap in time allocation in Europe
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2020
, and child care is offered, and explanations based on education, earnings, and household structure are presented, using …
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Gender Inequalities in Allocating Time to Paid and Unpaid Work : Evidence from Bolivia
Medeiros, Marcelo; Osorio, Rafael Guerreiro; Costa, Joana - 2007
This working paper analyzes paid and unpaid work-time inequalities among Bolivian urban adults using time use data from a 2001 household survey. We identified a gender-based division of labor characterized not so much by who does what type of work but by how much work of each type they do. There...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051053
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Do immigrants pay a price when marrying natives? : lessons from the US Time Use Survey
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - 2020
Using the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003-18 we compare the allocation of time of native men and women married to immigrants with that of their counterparts in all-native couples. We find that when intermarried to a native some immigrant women pay an assimilation price to the extent...
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The Great Recession and unpaid work time in the United States : does poverty matter?
Khitarishvili, Tamar; Kim, Kijong - 2014
In times of economic crises, household production, and the unpaid work time associated with it, can serve as a coping mechanism for absorbing the impact of shocks. Evidence from the Great Recession has been supportive of this possibility, and has revealed the presence of gender asymmetries...
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Intrahousehold allocation of household production: a comparative analysis for Sub-Saharan African countries
Rios-Avila, Fernando; Oduro, Abena D.; Pires, Luiza Nassif - 2021
In this working paper, we analyze factors that may explain gender differences in the allocation of time to household production in sub-Saharan Africa. The study uses time use survey data to analyze the determinants of time spent on household production by husbands and wives in nuclear families...
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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 … driven in part by the gender differential in wages. Efforts to reduce the gender wage gap and alter gendered norms of … should also note the impact of tax policy on housework time and consider ways to reduce the distortions caused by sales and …
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