Unemployment, market work and household production

Arbeitspapier

Using time-diary data from four countries we show that the unemployed spend most of the time not working for pay in additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment duration and the split of time between household production and leisure. U.S. data for 2003-2006 show that almost none of the lower amount of market work in areas of long-term high unemployment is offset by additional household production. In contrast, in those areas where unemployment has risen cyclically reduced market work is made up almost entirely by additional time spent in household production.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 3955

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 ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Zeitallokation ; Haushaltsproduktion ; Hausarbeit ; Zeitbudgetforschung ; USA

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Burda, Michael C. ; Hamermesh, Daniel S.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35740
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090209259
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET