Unpaid Work at Home |
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| Authors: | YOUNGHWAN SONG |
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| Institution: | Department of Economics, Union College. E‐mail: . I thank Daniel Hamermesh and participants at the Annual Conference of the International Association for Time Use Research, November 2–4, 2005, Halifax, Canada, for valuable comments. I am also grateful for the helpful comments from Trond Petersen (editor) and two anonymous referees. |
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| Abstract: | A substantial number of people take work home without a formal payment arrangement. Using the Work Schedules and Work at Home Supplement to the May 2001 Current Population Survey, this paper investigates the determinants of unpaid work at home. Education, lack of overtime rates, being a team leader, efficiency wages, and larger earnings inequality in an occupation are positively related to the prevalence of unpaid work at home. Unpaid work at home appears to be a form of investment made in expectation of a return in the long run. |
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