Women’s employment and the decline of home cooking: Evidence from France, 1985–2010
Fabrice Etilé
(1, 2)
,
Marie Plessz
(3)
Fabrice Etilé
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Marie Plessz
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Résumé
We here investigate the extent to which labour-market changes explain the decline in the time spent home cooking by married women in France between 1985 and 2010. Using time use data and Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions, we find that rising women’s employment and observed wages together account for about 60% of the fall in the time married women spent cooking. We then use a semi-parametric matching technique to construct an implicit wage rate, which better reflects the change in labour-market incentives that individuals face. The rise in women’s implicit wages explains no more than 20% of the decline in their cooking time, while the wage of their partner has no effect. Changing labour-market incentives are thus far from being the main driver of the decline in home-cooking. We also find evidence that home cooking continues to be structured by the gendered social norm of the “proper family meal”.
Domaines
Economies et financesFormat du dépôt | Notice |
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Type de dépôt | Article dans une revue |
Titre |
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Women’s employment and the decline of home cooking: Evidence from France, 1985–2010
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Résumé |
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We here investigate the extent to which labour-market changes explain the decline in the time spent home cooking by married women in France between 1985 and 2010. Using time use data and Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions, we find that rising women’s employment and observed wages together account for about 60% of the fall in the time married women spent cooking. We then use a semi-parametric matching technique to construct an implicit wage rate, which better reflects the change in labour-market incentives that individuals face. The rise in women’s implicit wages explains no more than 20% of the decline in their cooking time, while the wage of their partner has no effect. Changing labour-market incentives are thus far from being the main driver of the decline in home-cooking. We also find evidence that home cooking continues to be structured by the gendered social norm of the “proper family meal”.
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Auteur(s) |
Fabrice Etilé
1, 2
, Marie Plessz
3
1
PSE -
Paris School of Economics
( 301309 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
2
PJSE -
Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques
( 1171428 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
3
CMH -
Centre Maurice Halbwachs
( 20824 )
- 48 Boulevard Jourdan
75014 Paris
- France
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Langue du document |
Anglais
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Nom de la revue |
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Vulgarisation |
Non
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Comité de lecture |
Oui
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Audience |
Internationale
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Date de publication |
2018-12
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Volume |
16
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Numéro |
4
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Page/Identifiant |
939 - 970
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Public visé |
Scientifique
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Sous-type de document pour les Articles |
Research article
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Domaine(s) |
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Mots-clés (JEL) |
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Financement |
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Mots-clés |
en
Cooking, Household production, Labour supply, Wages, Gender
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DOI | 10.1007/s11150-018-9423-3 |
ProdINRA | 456819 |
UT key WOS | 000443010100003 |
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