Immigrants' Time Use: A Survey of Methods and Evidence

David Ribar

No 6931, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper discusses research questions related to immigrants' time use, reviews conceptual and methodological approaches to examining time allocations, and reviews evidence from previous studies. It provides new descriptive evidence, using time-diary data from the American Time Use Survey. Although results vary with the country of origin, immigrant men in the U.S. tend to devote more time to market work and sleeping but less time to housework, community activities, and leisure than native men. Immigrant women tend to devote more time to housework, caregiving and sleep but less time to market work, community activities, and leisure than native women.

Keywords: immigrants; time use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J22 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2012-10
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Published - published in: A. Constant and K.F. Zimmermann (eds), International Handbook of the Economics of Migration, Cheltenham, 2013, 373-92

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