Home Hours in the United States and Europe

Abstract

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Reducing and Redistributing Unpaid Work

“…On the other hand, male paid work has declined, while time spent on unpaid work has risen by 40 minutes. These findings are consistent with the literature (e.g., Bick and others, 2018;Fang and McDaniel, 2017) To further decompose this average time trend, we consider the evolution for subgroups defined in terms of civil status, employment, and education. We estimate the following specification separately for males and females for each subgroup: where represents the individual, is the year the survey was conducted, are country-fixed effects and , is a vector of individual characteristics such as number of children, educational attainment, marital status and age.…”

“…We show that, while men have increased their time spent on unpaid work, women still spend from 20 to 1,000 percent more time than men around the world. Evidence suggests that advanced economies have experienced reductions in the gender gap in unpaid work hours in recent years (Bick and others 2018;Fang and McDaniel 2017). Consistent with this, we find that, over time, women are doing more paid and less unpaid work in advanced economies, while the opposite is true for men.…”

“…Chandra and others, 2018), but focus instead on unpaid work. Our empirical approach based on microdata of time use surveys relates to recent work by Bridgman and others (2018), Bick and others (2018), and Fang and McDaniel (2017). We complement these studies by offering further disaggregation on individual characteristics driving levels and trends in unpaid work.…”

Italian Families in the 21st Century: Gender Gaps in Time Use and their Evolution

“…Fang and McDaniel (2017) focus on hours devoted to household work in the US and in the European countries. They show that household work per person have declined in both the US and European countries…”

Hours Worked in Europe and the United States: New Data, New Answers*

“…Burda et al . (), Fang and McDaniel (), and Bridgman et al . () construct cross‐country measures of hours worked based on time‐use surveys.…”