Trends in Time Allocation: A Cross-Country Analysis

By J. Ignacio Giménez-Nadal, Almudena Sevilla. Social Science Research Network, 2012

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Using detailed time-use data for seven industrialized countries from the 1970s until today we document general decreases in men's market work coupled with increases in men's unpaid work and child care, and increases in women's paid work and child care coupled with decreases in unpaid work. We also find almost universal increases in the time devoted to watching television over this period, and uncover a widespread increase in leisure inequality in favor of lower educated adults. Trends in leisure inequality mirror the general increase in income and earnings inequality experienced in most countries over this period, especially after the mid-1980s. All these findings are consistent with previous results for the US. However, in contrast to the increases in leisure found for the US, we fail to find common trends in leisure time across countries over the period analyzed.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

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2. Jose Alberto Molina Chueca
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4. G. D. Sani
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Citations in the corpus

• Educational Gradients in Parents' Child‐Care Time Across Countries, 1965–2012 (2016, result): “Although there was also an increase in the paternal educational gradient in most of the seven countries considered by Gimenez-Nadal and Sevilla (2012), the results for mothers showed more cross-national variation.”
• Commuting Time and Household Responsibilities: Evidence Using Propensity Score Matching (2016, methodology): “…most household responsibilities (e.g., time devoted to home production and childcare) continue to be carried out by women (Aguiar and Hurst, 2007; Gimenez-Nadal and Sevilla, 2012), and evidence from time use surveys in developed countries shows that there is still a gender gap in commuting time…”