Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/39319 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
SFB 649 Discussion Paper No. 2009,043
Publisher: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649 - Economic Risk, Berlin
Abstract: 
Time-diary data from four countries suggest that differences in market time between the unemployed and employed represent additional leisure and personal maintenance rather than increased household production. U.S. data for 2003-2006 show that almost none of the reduction in market work in areas of long-term high unemployment is offset by additional work at home. In contrast, in those areas where unemployment has risen cyclically, reduced market work is largely substituted by additional time in household production.
Subjects: 
Unemployment
time use
household production
paid work
JEL: 
E24
J22
D13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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