TY  - JOUR
AU  - Hamermesh,Daniel S.
AU  - Lee,Jungmin
TI  - Stressed Out on Four Continents: Time Crunch or Yuppie Kvetch?
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 10186
PY  - 2003
Y2  - December 2003
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10186
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10186.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Department of Economics
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78712-1173
Tel: 512/475-8526
Fax: 512/471-3510
E-Mail: hamermes@eco.utexas.edu

Jungmin Lee
Sogang University
Seoul, Korea
E-Mail: junglee@sogang.ac.kr
AB  - Social commentators have pointed to problems of women workers who face  time stress'   an absence of sufficient time to accomplish all their tasks. An economic theory views time stress as reflecting how tightly the time constraint binds households. Time stress will be more prevalent in households with higher incomes and whose members work longer in the market or on  required' homework. Evidence from Australia, Canada, Germany, Korea and the United States corroborates this view. Adults in higher-income households perceive more time stress for the same amount of time spent in market work and household work. The importance of higher full incomes in generating time stress is not small, particularly in North America   much is  yuppie kvetch.' While time stress is most prevalent among working wives, a decomposition suggests that women would perceive more time stress than men even if both worked the same number of hours in the market and at home.
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