Self-Employed Individuals, Time Use, and Earnings

Thorsten Konietzko ()

Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2015, vol. 36, issue 1, 64-83

Abstract: This paper analyzes the time allocation of self-employed individuals and the impact of housework activities on earnings of self-employed individuals. In contrast to men and women in paid employment time allocation of self-employed individuals was more gendered with men performing more market work. Also differences in daily routine of activities occurred. While descriptive statistics and pooled OLS earnings regressions indicated a negative correlation between time spent on housework activities and earnings, fixed effects earnings regressions only showed a significantly negative impact on monthly earnings of self-employed men. This impact disappeared after controlling for potential endogeneity via instrumental variable estimators. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

Keywords: Self-employment; Time use; Earnings; Gender earnings gap; Germany; J16; J31; J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s10834-014-9411-6

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