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April 2002

Synchronicity in the work schedules of working couples

John P. Robinson, Alain Chenu

The work grids collected by the National Statistical Institute (INSEE) in France reveal a wide variety of ways that dual-earner couples schedule their work and family lives; also, a new index can be used to measure the extent of synchronicity in a couple?s work hours.

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