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04. Dezember 2012, 17:00 bis 19:00

Interactions Between Spouses´ Time Allocation

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Abstract
The large majority of members of the working-age population live in some form of different-sex partnership. Evidence from time-use surveys suggests that within those partnerships, the allocation across key activities systematically varies between women and men, even when children are absent. We provide such evidence from the German ZBE 2001/02. We formulate a structural model of couples allowing each partner to allocate available time between market work, leisure, and home work. Couples form because of consumption externalities and the possibility to specialize. This model is used as a laboratory to explore to which extent observed differences in time-allocation are due to differences in wages, or preferences between partners.

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