Time Use and Transfers in the Americas
Producing, Consuming, and Sharing Time Across Generations and Genders
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Beschreibung
This book provides a comparison of the measurement in time and monetary units of unpaid domestic work in Colombia, Costa Rica, Uruguay, and the Hispanic ethnicity in the United States. A standardized technique allows the development of comparable estimates across countries per age and gender which reveal specific behavioral patterns over the life cycle. A mixture of economic conditions, social norms, and demographic trends provide insightful explanations for the unequal burden that women and girls carry when dealing with unpaid domestic activities, an economically significant but traditionally neglected activity. As such, the book is of interested to practitioners in all social sciences, particularly sociologists, demographers, economists, and policymakers.
This book provides a comparison of the measurement in time and monetary units of unpaid domestic work in Colombia, Costa Rica, Uruguay, and the Hispanic ethnicity in the United States. A standardized technique allows the development of comparable estimates across countries per age and gender which reveal specific behavioral patterns over the life cycle. A mixture of economic conditions, social norms, and demographic trends provide insightful explanations for the unequal burden that women and girls carry when dealing with unpaid domestic activities, an economically significant but traditionally neglected activity. As such, the book is of interested to practitioners in all social sciences, particularly sociologists, demographers, economists, and policymakers.
Delivers gender and age profiles of time use on market work and domestic unpaid work with both monetary and time measurements Makes a comparison between developed and developing nations in the Americas Present a cross country comparison, with a common methodology that can contrast developed and developing nations
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B. Piedad Urdinola
Themen in »Time Use and Transfers in the Americas«
Economic Life Cycle Economics of Aging Gender Differences Intergenerational Transfers Time Use Differentials Time Use Patterns Time Use Surveys Unpaid Domestic Labor