Evidence on unemployment, market work and household production

Arbeitspapier

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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: SFB 649 Discussion Paper ; No. 2009,043

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
• Subject: Unemployment ; time use ; household production ; paid work ; Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit ; Zeitbudgetforschung ; Haushaltsproduktion ; Erwerbstätigkeit ; USA

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Burda, Michael C. ; Hamermesh, Daniel S.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Humboldt University of Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649 - Economic Risk
• (where): Berlin
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/39319
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET