Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/113805 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 5475
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We study the allocation of time in the U.S. and in Europe during 1960–2010. We find that market hours decreased and leisure increased most in France and least in the U.S. Contrary to what standard theory predicts, home hours changed comparatively little. We show that the growth model with home production can account for the patterns in France and the U.S. if we feed in taxes and labor productivities. To obtain this result it is crucial to measure the labor productivity of home production in a comparable way in both countries, instead of calibrating these productivities like the literature does.
Subjects: 
home production
labor productivity
leisure
time allocation
JEL: 
E10
J40
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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