Browsing by Subject "Zeitbudget"

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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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    Work time and hours constraints
    (2012) Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso
    This thesis aims to draw a comprehensive picture of labor supply hours and the extent and determinants of work hours constraints while pinpointing possible consequences and policy implications of such constraints and highlighting the relevance of individual work time preferences with respect to a meaningful debate on work time issues. Most particularly, it offers a comprehensive analysis of how the consideration of individually preferred work hours and the discrepancy between these and actual work hours can foster an understanding of individual labor market participation decisions. What insights, for example, do individual preferences for work hours provide for successful policy implementation if policy makers address topics such as the length of the work week, balance between work and family life or the need for more substantive part-time jobs? Likewise, what incentives might lead employers to reduce work hour mismatches? Despite their importance, these issues of work hour preferences and constraints have not yet been adequately considered in the overall debate on work time and labor market policy. Nor has attention been paid to a further pivotal question: how these restrictions affect workers´ health and well-being. To date, there are only a few studies that investigate the meaning of work hours constraints in the context of happiness and well-being in the work place. This thesis, therefore, constitutes the first study for Germany and the United Kingdom on the potential adverse health consequences of being constrained in the choice of number of work hours.