Arbeitspapier

On the Allocation of Time

We document for the US and Continental Europe that home–production time remained essentially flat during the last 50 years while changes in market time and leisure offset each other. We then focus on the US and France during 1970–2005 which are on the opposite sides of the spectrum: while US market time did not change much, French market time decreased most strongly. We document for the US and France that capital in home production and imputed labor productivities of home production have risen. We build a version of the growth model with capital in market and home production to account for the time allocation in both countries. We find that the interaction between taxes, home capital, and home–labor–augmenting technical change is crucial.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Working Paper Series ; No. 14-09

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
time allocation
home production
leisure
taxes

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Dürnecker, Georg
Herrendorf, Berthold
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
University of Mannheim, Department of Economics
(where)
Mannheim
(when)
2014

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-359375
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Dürnecker, Georg
  • Herrendorf, Berthold
  • University of Mannheim, Department of Economics

Time of origin

  • 2014

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