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Unpaid work and the economy : linkages and their implications
Hirway, Indira - 2015
Unpaid work, which falls outside of the national income accounts but within the general production boundary, is viewed as either "care" or as "work" by experts. This work is almost always unequally distributed between men and women, and if one includes both paid and unpaid work, women carry much...
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews …
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Patterns of time use among older people
Ferranna, Maddalena; Sevilla, J. P.; Zucker, Leo; … - 2022
We analyze time use studies to describe how people allocate their time as they age, especially among paid work, unpaid work, leisure, and personal care. We emphasize differences in time allocation between older (i.e., those aged 65+) and younger people; between developed and developing countries;...
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Unpaid work and gender gap patterns in Colombia
Ospina-Cartagena, Vanessa; García, Andrés - 2020
Gender inequality is much more than wage gaps. Indeed, one interesting case is how individuals allocate time among different activities such as paid work, unpaid work and domestic work. This paper aims to quantify gender inequality in the time use in unpaid care and home activities and to...
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The determinants of housework time : boosting the efficiency of household production could have large economic effects
Stratton, Leslie S. - 2015
The time household members in industrialized countries spend on housework and shopping is substantial, amounting on … should also note the impact of tax policy on housework time and consider ways to reduce the distortions caused by sales and …
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Do significant labor market events change who does the chores? : paid work, housework and power in mixed-gender Australian households
Foster, Gigi; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2017
We examine how men and women in mixed-gender unions change the time they allocate to housework in response to labor … strongest association with housework time allocation adjustments. These adjustments are in part attributable to concurrent … holding more liberal gender role attitudes are more likely to adjust their housework time allocations after female promotion …
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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...
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Intrahousehold allocation of household production: a comparative analysis for Sub-Saharan African countries
Rios-Avila, Fernando; Oduro, Abena D.; Pires, Luiza Nassif - 2021
In this working paper, we analyze factors that may explain gender differences in the allocation of time to household production in sub-Saharan Africa. The study uses time use survey data to analyze the determinants of time spent on household production by husbands and wives in nuclear families...
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Do immigrants pay a price when marrying natives? : lessons from the US Time Use Survey
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - 2020
Using the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003-18 we compare the allocation of time of native men and women married to immigrants with that of their counterparts in all-native couples. We find that when intermarried to a native some immigrant women pay an assimilation price to the extent...
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The unobserved economy : invisible production in households : the Household Production Satellite Account and the National Time Transfer Account
Marszałek, Marta - In: Statistics in transition : an international journal of … 21 (2020) 3, pp. 149-169
Standard measures of economic activity relate to goods and services offered by the market. Stiglitz's report, however, suggests that not only monetary value or economic products create welfare, but non-monetary components should also be included in the System of National Accounts. Although...
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