Home Hours in the United States and Europe

McDaniel Cara and Lei Fang

No 2014-5, FRB Atlanta Working Paper from Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Abstract: Using data from the Multinational Time Use Study, this paper documents the trends and levels of time allocation, with a focus on home hours, for a relatively large set of industrialized countries during the past 50 years. Three patterns emerge. First, home hours have decreased in both the United States and European countries. Second, female time allocation contributes more to the cross-country difference in both the trends and the levels of market hours and home hours per person. Third, time allocations between the United States and Europe are more similar for the prime-age group than for the young and old groups.

Keywords: time use; home hours; sex; age (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D13 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 57 pages
Date: 2014-06-01
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