Do Constraints on Market Work Hours Change Home Production Efforts?

Market and Home Production: Gender Differences

Several countries had an increase in female labour participation during the twentieth century. Even so, few of them can be proud of the conditions these women faced in dealing with family responsibilities and the labour market. This paper analyses the occupational distribution of men and women from 1978 to 2007 using the microdata of Pnad. It shows that women are entering traditional male occup...

A Cross-Clustered Model of Home-Based Work Participation Frequency During Traditionally Off-Work Hours

The objective of this paper is to shed light on the determinants of working from home beyond the traditional office-based work hours. Specifically, we examine the frequency of work participation from home for individuals who also have the traditional work pattern of traveling to an out-of-home work place with a fixed number of work hours at the out-of-home work place. The sample for the empiric...

Do baby-talk words reflect biomechanical constraints on speech production?

Baby-talk words are conventionalized lexical items used in infant-directed speech. According to the Frame/Content theory, the structure of baby-talk words reflects biomechanical constraints on speech production associated with the origin of speech, a hypothesis that yields three predictions — compared to adult vocabulary, baby-talk words should exhibit (1) more canonical CV syllables, (2) more ...

Hours of Work

Nursing Home Culture Change and Social Work Practice