Explaining Gender Differences in Housework Time in Germany

Gwozdz, Wencke; Sousa‐Poza, Alfonso

doi:10.1007/s10603-010-9127-4

“…They find that the higher the male's income share, the more time the female spends on doing the chores. Similar findings have been obtained for other countries including Australia (Baxter, 2002), France (Anxo and Carlin, 2004), the UK (van Klaveren et al, 2008) and Germany (Gwozdz and Sousa-Poza, 2010). …”

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Making Dough or Baking Dough? Spousal Housework Responsibilities in Germany, 1992-2011

Procher

¹

,

Ritter

²

,

Vance

³

2014

SSRN Journal

3

0

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The working papers published in the Series constitute work in progress circulated to stimulate discussion and critical comments. Views expressed represent exclusively the authors' own opinions and do not necessarily refl ect those of the editors. Terms of use: Documents in Ruhr Economic Papers #472

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“…As Hersch and Stratton (2002) argue, the latter result may reflect more severe constraints on the division and timing of housework activities for married individuals that are more likely to interfere with labour market activities. For instance, Alesina et al (2011) show that intra-household bargaining may yield a situation in which married men put more effort on their careers and engage less in household production than single men and 2 For empirical analyses finding a negative impact of wages on hours allocated to housework activities we exemplarily refer to Hersch and Stratton (1994) for the U.S. as well as Gwozdz and Sousa-Poza (2010) for Germany. The latter paper also includes a comprehensive review of the empirical literature on this issue.…”

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The effect of housework on wages in Germany: no impact at all

Hirsch

¹

,

Konietzko

²

2012

J Labour Market Res

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu Abstract This paper presents evidence on the impact of hours spent on housework activities on individuals' wages for Germany using data from both the German SocioEconomic Panel and the German Time Use Survey. In contrast to most of the international literature, we find no negative effect of housework on wages. This holds for men and women, for married and single individuals, and for parttime and full-time workers both in West and East Germany. Our insights do not change when we distinguish different types of housework activities or address the endogeneity of housework in our wage regressions by using instrumental variables estimators. Terms of use: Documents in Keywords

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“…A number of studies have found that gender inequalities exist in time use (Connelly and Kimmel, 2009, Gwozdz and Sousa-Poza, 2010& Burda et al 2013. Ilahi (2000), discussed the composition of male-female time tasks, explained that women work more than men in almost all regions.…”

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An analysis of gender differences in intra-household time allocation of rural farm families in Sri Lanka

Rathnayaka¹,

Weerahewa²

2015

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Households are the locus of much economic decision-making. Of the resources endowed by the household, the time resource plays a crucial role in determining wellbeing of the individual members of the household. The objectives of this study were to describe the gender differences in time allocation within the rural households, and to find out the determinants of the time allocations for nonpaid activities. The rules regarding allocation of resources within the household were captured using collective model. It was hypothesized that each spouse makes decisions within his or her own sphere and responds to the other's decisions by altering their own level of voluntary contribution to shared goods. An empirical model was specified, treating hours spent on nonpaid work by each spouse as the dependent variable and individual, household characteristics, and partner's time allocation as independent variables. They were estimated simultaneously using the two-stage least square (2SLS) technique. Data were extracted from the baseline survey carried out among rural households in Udukumbara village in Kandy district. The results reveal that husbands allocate more hours to both paid and nonpaid work and fewer hours to care work than the wives. According to 2SLS estimation results, total land extent and education level have significant positive and negative effects, respectively on nonpaid work hours of both spouses. The presence of other adults in the household has a negative and significant effect on wives' nonpaid working hour. Interestingly, the results indicate that nonpaid work hours of one spouse have a significant negative effect on the other's nonpaid work, indicating the members jointly make time allocation decisions.

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Explaining Gender Differences in Housework Time in Germany

Abstract: Division of housework, Gender, Housework, Time use survey, Structural equation modelling,

Cited by 17 publications

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Making Dough or Baking Dough? Spousal Housework Responsibilities in Germany, 1992-2011

Making Dough or Baking Dough? Spousal Housework Responsibilities in Germany, 1992-2011

The effect of housework on wages in Germany: no impact at all

An analysis of gender differences in intra-household time allocation of rural farm families in Sri Lanka

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