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Time use sheet

Allocation of time use

Description: Hourly use of time for Physiological overhead, Study, Paid work, Unpaid work, Leisure

Unit: hours

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  • Data not categorized between skill levels → ratios of Italy applied (Mid skill group is directly from the Finnish data, and differences between low and high skill groups are calculated with the same ratios that Italian data had)
    • Eurogreen documentation: “The initial allocation of time use is based on microdata from the 2013 Italian Time Use Survey and the gender specific sensitivity of unpaid work (wguw) results from a regression analysis from aforementioned data.“
    • Eurogreen team used ISTAT time use survey
    • “physiological overhead, leisure and social, paid work, unpaid work and study.”

Sens UW

Description: gender-specific sensitivity of unpaid work to changes in paid work. OLS is used on time use microdata to estimate how unpaid work hours (UW) change with a one-hour increase in paid work, separately for men and women.

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Notes:

  • Goal is to estimate whether, and how much, time spent on paid work substitutes for unpaid work, and whether this substitution effect differs by gender and age group.
  • Eurogreen documentation 2023: “The initial allocation of time use is based on microdata from the 2013 Italian Time Use Survey and the gender specific sensitivity of unpaid work (wguw) results from a regression analysis from aforementioned data.“
  • Check: Cieplinski, D’Alessandro, Dwarkasing & Guarnieri (2023)