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Female labor force participation and time-saving household technology: a case study of the microwave from 1978 to 1989

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American households are facing severe time constraints as women increase their participation in the wage economy. The implications of this situation for the adoption of time-saving technology in the home are not well understood. Previous researvch suggests several scenarios regarding the consequences of female labor force participation for the purchase of time-saving technology: (1) there may be no effect, (2) female labor force participation may have a direct effect, (3) female labor force participation may have an indirect effect through income, or (4) direct effects emerge over time. This article evaluates these hypotheses with a case study of the microwave oven, through proprietary cross-sectional surveys of married-couple households conducted from 1978 to 1989. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher).

Case studies, Microwave ovens, Time management, Working women, Dual-career families

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Determinants of household expenditures for services

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Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Surveys were used to investigate factors influencing household expenditures for services in the United States. There were significant differences between families with full-time and part-time working wives in expenditures on child care, food away from home, and total services. Household production variables had a significant impact on service expenditures in most instances, while the effects of other variables such as family life cycle, education, race, and geographic location varied by service category and employment status of wife. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Finance, Accounting and auditing, Home economics, Households

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Durables and wives' employment yet again

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The literature examining the relationship between consumer durables expenditures and wives' employment is analyzed. Several deficiencies in the literature are corrected in a revised model that is estimated with data from the 1977-1978 Survey of Consumer Expenditures. This article concludes that durables expenditures and wives' employment time are complements. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Durable goods

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