This article proposes an ‘equivalence scale for time’ by which information on total working time in both paid and unpaid labour can be derived from information about paid working time and household structure. Different scales are offered for males and females, and an adjustment according to...

In addition to familiar 'market failures' and 'non-market failures' there can also be 'preference failures'. People's preferences may be mistaken because of simple failures of information or imagination, of coherence or completeness or stability, of contextualization or expression or will. Ways...

The paper examines the policy relevance and economic significance of the volunteering sector. It presents a case for an expanded definition of volunteering, encompassing activities performed outside formal organisations.The paper uses statistical analyses to examine the profile of volunteering...

The paper examines how the use of child care, the time parents spend with children, and parental wellbeing relate to parental employment. The analysis in this paper is based on Wave 1 of the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Children (LSAC) confidentialised unit record file. Four themes are...

It is widely believed that domestic outsourcing is booming. Many believe the growth of market services is a response to increasing time pressures arising from new responsibilities in the paid workforce, and to an inflexible sexual division of labour at home. The interpretation of the...