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Economic influences on food choice—non-convenience versus convenience food consumption

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Food Choice, Acceptance and Consumption

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In recent decades women’s participation in the labour market has increased significantly, the implication being more pronounced time pressure in most families all over the developed world (Gershuny, 1994; Bonke, 1995a). In the New Household Economics, the value of time affects consumption (Becker, 1965) for which reason households with working wives consume more time-saving goods and services than do households with full-time homemakers, i.e. the households substitute time-saving services for their own time. Therefore, the question is how households have sustained or enlarged their level of economic welfare, when gaining money and losing disposable time.

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    H. L. Meiselman

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    H. J. H. MacFie

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Bonke, J. (1996). Economic influences on food choice—non-convenience versus convenience food consumption. In: Meiselman, H.L., MacFie, H.J.H. (eds) Food Choice, Acceptance and Consumption. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1221-5_8

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