Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/101043 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2014-5
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Abstract: 
Using data from the Multinational Time Use Study, this paper documents the trends and levels of time allocation, with a focus on home hours, for a relatively large set of industrialized countries during the past 50 years. Three patterns emerge. First, home hours have decreased in both the United States and European countries. Second, female time allocation contributes more to the cross-country difference in both the trends and the levels of market hours and home hours per person. Third, time allocations between the United States and Europe are more similar for the prime-age group than for the young and old groups.
Subjects: 
time use
home hours
sex
age
JEL: 
J22
D13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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