Time Allocation of Married Mothers and Fathers in Hard Times: The 2007-09 US Recession

Feminist Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 208-237

  Berik, Günseli ^a   Kongar, Ebru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b DICKINSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

economic crises; Economics of gender; time use; unemployment; unpaid labor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883550840     PISSN: 13545701     EISSN: 14664372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2013.798425     Document Type: Article

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