TY  - JOUR
AU  - Burda,Michael
AU  - Hamermesh,Daniel S.
TI  - Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 14676
PY  - 2009
Y2  - January 2009
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14676
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14676.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Michael Burda
Faculty of Business and Economics
Humboldt University Berlin
Spandauer Str. 1
D-10178 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: burda@wiwi.hu-berlin.de

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
AB  - Using time-diary data from four countries we show that the unemployed spend most of the time not working for pay in additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production.  There is no relation between unemployment duration and the split of time between household production and leisure. U.S. data for 2003-2006 show that almost none of the lower amount of market work in areas of long-term high unemployment is offset by additional household production.  In contrast, in those areas where unemployment has risen cyclically reduced market work is made up almost entirely by additional time spent in household production.
ER  -