• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Time use of parents in the United States: What difference did the Great Recession make?
  • Contributor: Kongar, Ebru [Author]; Berik, Günseli [Author]
  • Published: Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, 2014
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: J64 ; Unemployment ; Unpaid Labor ; Economic Crises ; Time Use ; D13 ; Economics of Gender ; J16
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  • Description: Feminist and institutionalist literature has challenged the "Mancession" narrative of the 2007-09 recession and produced nuanced and gender-aware analyses of the labor market and well-being outcomes of the recession. Using American Time Use Survey (ATUS) data for 2003-12, this paper examines the recession's impact on gendered patterns of time use over the course of the 2003-12 business cycle. We find that the gender disparity in paid and unpaid work hours followed a U-shaped pattern, narrowing during the recession and widening slightly during the jobless recovery. The change in unpaid work disparity was smaller than that in paid work, and was short-lived. Consequently, mothers' total workload increased under the hardships of the Great Recession and declined only slightly during the recovery.
  • Access State: Open Access