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Seminario IECON: "Coordinated Work Schedules and the Gender Wage Gap"Presenta Germán Cubas (University of Houston), en co-autoría con Chinhui Juhn y Pedro Silos.
Resumen Using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) we document the timing of work and household care over the course of the day for men and women. Married women with children who report to be full-time workers work less relative to their male counterparts according to time-diary data. They correspondingly do more household care (child care plus adult care). The time diary data also allows us to construct occupation-level measures of coordinated work schedules based on the concentration of hours worked during peak hours of the day. While men and single women receive a wage premium in occupations with coordinated schedules, married women with children less so, suggesting that temporal constraints related to household care responsibilities restrict their choices. Calibration of a model with these essential elements – demand for household time, imperfect substitutability of home production across hours of the day, and productivity losses associated with “missing hours” which vary at the occupation level – suggest that up to 15 percent of the gender gap can be explained by women’s higher demand for household time. Martes 31/7/2018 HORARIO ESPECIAL 15 hs, Salón Multifuncional Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración |