Arbeitspapier

Intra-household Work Time Synchronization: Togetherness or Material Benefits?

If partners derive utility from joint leisure time, it is expected that they will coordinate their work schedules in order to increase the amount of joint leisure. In order to control for differences in constraints and selection effects, this paper uses a new matching procedure, providing answers to the following questions: (1) Do partners coordinate their work schedules and does this result in work time synchronization?; (2) which partners synchronize more work hours?; and (3) is there a preference for togetherness? We find that coordination results in more synchronized work hours. The presence of children in the household is the main cause why some partners synchronize their work times less than other partners. Finally, partners coordinate their work schedules in order to have more joint leisure time, which is evidence for togetherness preferences.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 05-095/3

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
General Welfare; Well-Being
Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Thema
Time Allocation
Leisure Time
Togetherness
Work Hours

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
van Klaveren, Chris
van den Brink, Henriëtte Maassen
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Tinbergen Institute
(wo)
Amsterdam and Rotterdam
(wann)
2005

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • van Klaveren, Chris
  • van den Brink, Henriëtte Maassen
  • Tinbergen Institute

Entstanden

  • 2005

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