Browsing by Subject "Arbeitsteilung"

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    Die Persistenz der geschlechtsspezifischen Arbeitsteilung im Haushalt : eine Analyse auf Basis der Zeitbudgeterhebungen des Statistischen Bundesamts
    (2008) Gwozdz, Wencke; Seel, Barbara
    This study evaluates couples? time use behaviour with regard to housework in Germany with data from the 2001/02 and 1991/92 German Time Use Survey. Despite the fact that women did reduce their hours worked within the household context in the last decades, the unequal division of housework between men and women still persists. This study aims both at analyzing the determinants of the allocation of time spent on housework, as well as why gender differences in household time use behaviour exist. With the aid of structural equation modelling, it is shown that the decrease in time spent on housework by women can largely be explained by changes in the effects that wages, household goods consumption and the aspiration for market goods consumption have on time spent on housework. Men?s time allocation behaviour has remained remarkably constant. It is also observed that women?s time allocation behaviour with regard to household work is becoming more similar to that of men?s.
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    The implications of automation for economic growth and the labor share
    (2016) Prettner, Klaus
    We introduce automation into a standard model of capital accumulation and show that (i) there is the possibility of perpetual growth, even in the absence of technological progress; (ii) the long-run economic growth rate declines with population growth, which is consistent with the available empirical evidence; (iii)there is a unique share of savings diverted to automation that maximizes long-run growth; (iv) the labor share declines with automation to an extent that fits to the observed pattern over the last decades.