Intra-household work timing. The effect on joint activities and the demand for child care.

Autor/inn/en	Klaveren, Chris van; Maassen van den Brink, Henriette; Praag, Bernard M. S. van
Titel	Intra-household work timing. The effect on joint activities and the demand for child care.
Quelle	Bonn: IZA (2011), 29 S., 198,79 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit. 5636
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
URN	urn:nbn:de:101:1-201104134468
Schlagwörter	Schätzung; Familiensoziologie; Kinderbetreuung; Arbeitsplatzangebot; Ökonomie; Freizeit; Arbeitspapier; Niederlande
Abstract	This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this studies identifies the timing of work hours that cannot be explained by factors other than the partners' potential to communicate on the timing of their work. The main findings are that couples with children create less overlap in their work times and this effect is more pronounced the younger the children. We find evidence for a togetherness preference of spouses, but only for childless couples. Work timing also influences the joint time that is spent on household chores, but the effect is small. Finally, work timing behavior affects the demand for informal child care, but not the demand for formal child care.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2012/1