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The gender division of work across countries
Gottlieb, Charles; Doss, Cheryl R.; Gollin, Douglas; … - 2024
Across countries, women and men allocate time differently between market work, domestic services, and care work. In this paper, we document the gender division of work, drawing on a new harmonized data set that provides us with high-quality time use data for 50 countries spanning the global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014507757
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Innovations, technology and time allocation : implications for labour productivity and welfare in Ghana
Asante, Felix Ankomah; Awo, Martha Adimabuno; Bonzo, … - 2024
This report investigates the dynamics of time allocation of men, women, and children in various types of work in rural households in Ghana. Using primary data and the Ghana Time Use Survey (GTUS) 2009, it examines gendered differences in time allocation and the interaction between income,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014566916
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The unpaid care workpaid work connection
Antonopoulos, Rania (contributor) - 2008
In order to provide a coherent perspective of gender differences in the world of work, this paper argues, the many intersections of paid and unpaid work must be brought to light. It is well documented that gender-based wage differentials and occupational segregation continue to characterize the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003772177
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Housework share between partners : experimental evidence on gender identity
Auspurg, Katrin; Iacovou, Maria; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2014
Using an experimental design, we investigate the reasons behind the gendered division of housework within couples. In … particular, we assess whether the fact that women do more housework may be explained by differences in preferences deriving from … preference for housework, suggesting that the reasons for the gendered division of housework lie elsewhere. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419024
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Housework share between partners : experimental evidence on gender identity
Ausprung, Katrin; Iacovou, Maria; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2015
Using an experimental design, we investigate the reasons behind the gendered division of housework within couples. In … particular, we assess whether the fact that women do more housework than men may be explained by differences in preferences … differences in the preference for housework, suggesting that the reasons for the gendered division of housework lie elsewhere. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481687
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The Great Recession and unpaid work time in the United States : does poverty matter?
Khitarishvili, Tamar; Kim, Kijong - 2014
In times of economic crises, household production, and the unpaid work time associated with it, can serve as a coping mechanism for absorbing the impact of shocks. Evidence from the Great Recession has been supportive of this possibility, and has revealed the presence of gender asymmetries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358418
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Gender inequalities in allocating time to paid and unpaid work : evidence from Bolivia
Medeiros, Marcelo C. (contributor);  … - 2007
This working paper analyzes paid and unpaid work-time inequalities among Bolivian urban adults using time use data from a 2001 household survey. We identified a gender-based division of labor characterized not so much by who does what type of work but by how much work of each type they do. There...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003727000
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Time Use Dynamics in Paid Work and Household Activities of Married Women - A Panel Analysis with Household Information and Regional Labour Demand
Merz, Joachim - 2009
The dynamics of multiple time use in paid work and in household activities with housework, child rearing and DIY of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159060
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Specialization in same-sex and different-sex couples
Hofmarcher, Thomas; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2021
We examine time allocation decisions in same-sex and different-sex couples from a Beckerian comparative advantage perspective. In particular, we estimate the comparative advantage relationship between time spent on either market or household activities and a dummy for being the highest earner in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612672
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Valuing unpaid care work in Bhutan
Suh, Jooyeoun; Changa Dorji; Mercer-Blackman, Valerie; … - 2020
A growing body of scholarly literature has attempted to measure and value unpaid care work in various countries, but perhaps only the government statistical agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom have seriously undertaken periodic and systematic measures of the time spent on unpaid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012308494