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An Empirical Analysis Of The Time Allocation Of Italian Couples: Are Italian Men Irresponsive?

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  • HANS G. BLOEMEN
  • SILVIA PASQUA

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  • ELENA G. F. STANCANELLI

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This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while Italian women have the lowest market employment rates. We model the three different time uses simultaneously for the two spouses within each household, allowing for corner solutions and correlations in the unobservables across the system of six equations. To estimate the model we use data drawn from the 2002-03 Italian Time Use Survey, combined with earnings information taken from the 2002 Bank of Italy Survey. We conclude that Italian husbands’ time allocation responds to their wife’s attributes: in particular, husbands’ housework time increases with the wage of their wife. On the contrary, the own wage effect is significantly negative for housework of women. Childcare time of fathers increases with own wage and with the presence of small children and this is true both for weekdays and weekends.

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Paper provided by CHILD - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics - ITALY in its series CHILD Working Papers with number wp18_08.

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Length: 36 pages
Date of creation: Oct 2008
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Handle: RePEc:wpc:wplist:wp18_08

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Keywords: Female Labor Supply; Fertility; Discrete Choice; Classification Error; Simulated Maximum Likelihood;

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  1. Grossbard, Shoshana & Gimenez-Nadal, Jose Ignacio & Molina, José Alberto, 2010. "Racial Discrimination and Household Chores," IZA Discussion Papers 5345, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).

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