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Household Market and Work Time Distribution in Selected European Countries
Marta Hozer

ABSTRACT. The article is an attempt to answer the following questions:

1. What are the tools to measure the time distribution between market and household work?
2. What was the pattern of time distribution between market and household work in Europe?
3. What are the most powerful factors determining the work time distribution?

In order to measure the time distribution between market work and household work the author applied such parameters as: mean work duration, mean work performance time and the percentage of people who perform a given type of work. Basing on these measures the following indices were constructed: DCP – a work time distribution index, CPD – a household work time index and CPZ – a market work time index. The working time distribution analysis was carried out for the following European countries: Belgium, France, Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia and Hungary.

KEYWORDS: household work, DCP – a work time distribution index, European countries, Poland.

JEL classification: D1, D13, P2.