The Intra‐household Division of Labor: An Empirical Analysis of Spousal Influences on Individual Time Allocation
Using the German Time Use Surveys 1991/92 and 2001/02, this paper analyses the interactions between the time‐use decisions of partners within one household. Thereby, an interdependent model of the partners' times allocated to paid and unpaid work that allows for simultaneity and endogeneity of the time allocation decisions of the spouses is applied. When including both weekdays and weekend days in the analysis, a complementary relationship between the partner's time allocations is found. When restricting the analysis to weekdays, however, men's time dedicated to paid and unpaid work is unaffected by their wives' time‐use decisions.
Bredtmann, J. (2014), The Intra‐household Division of Labor: An Empirical Analysis of Spousal Influences on Individual Time Allocation. Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 28, 1, 1-39
DOI: 10.1111/labr.12024