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The Household Division of Labour: Changes in Families’ Allocation of Paid and Unpaid Work, 1992–2002

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  1. Susan Harkness
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  1. Centre for Economic Performance, the London School of Economics and Queen Mary, University of London, UK

    Richard Dickens

  2. Centre for Economic Performance, the London School of Economics, University of Bristol, UK

    Paul Gregg

  3. Centre for Economic Performance, the London School of Economics and Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK

    Jonathan Wadsworth

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Harkness, S. (2003). The Household Division of Labour: Changes in Families’ Allocation of Paid and Unpaid Work, 1992–2002. In: Dickens, R., Gregg, P., Wadsworth, J. (eds) The Labour Market Under New Labour. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598454_11

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