Time with Children: Do Fathers and Mothers Replace Each Other When One Parent is Unemployed? |
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Authors: | Ariane Pailhé Anne Solaz |
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Institution: | (1) INED, 133 boulevard Davout, 75980 Paris Cedex 20, France |
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Abstract: | This article aims to study the substitution of parental time between the mother and the father. Taking the “experience” of
unemployment as a release from the time constraint, we analyse time transfers between partners in such a situation. A bivariate
Tobit model is applied on the French time-use data. It shows that parents quite rarely substitute the time devoted to children
between each other, except for child transportation and childcare. Parents do not want to relinquish their parental activities,
a fact which reflects their desire to contribute to the children’s education, and the contribution of parental time to the
balance of power between spouses. Exchanges remain asymmetric: non-employed fathers release less their partner from parental
tasks than unemployed mothers do, which reflects the weight of gender social norms. |
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