Opting Out and Buying Out: Wives' Earnings and Housework Time

Autor/in	Killewald, Alexandra
Titel	Opting Out and Buying Out: Wives' Earnings and Housework Time
Quelle	In: Journal of Marriage and Family, 73 (2011) 2, S.459-471 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-2445
DOI	10.1111/j.1741-3737.2010.00818.x
Schlagwörter	Spouses; Labor; Mail Surveys; Housework; Womens Studies; Employed Women; Family Work Relationship; Home Management; Consumer Education; Outsourcing; Family Income; Social Indicators + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ehepartner; Erhebungsinstrument; Hausarbeit; 'Female employment; Women''s employment'; Frauenbeschäftigung; Haushaltswesen; Konsumerziehung; Familieneinkommen; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator
Abstract	It has been proposed that the negative association between wives' earnings and their time in housework is due to greater outsourcing of household labor by households with high-earning wives, but this hypothesis has not been tested directly. In a sample of dual-earner married couples in the Consumption and Activities Mail Survey of the Health and Retirement Study (N = 796), use of market substitutes for women's housework was found to be only weakly associated with wives' time cooking and cleaning. Furthermore, expenditures on market substitutes explain less than 15% of the earnings-housework time relationship. This suggests that use of market substitutes plays a smaller role in explaining variation in wives' time in household labor than has previously been hypothesized. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10