Mainstreaming unpaid work : time-use data in developing policies /

Unpaid work, across the world, is an area that has generally been neglected by economists as well as development actors. Yet the amount of unpaid work done and the manner in which its burden is distributed have important implications for the well-being of individuals and households, as well as for a...

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Other Authors:	Hirway, Indira (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Unpaid labor > Developing countries. Wages > Women > Developing countries. Sex discrimination in employment > Southern Hemisphere. Unpaid labor > Government policy > Developing countries. Labor market > Developing countries. Women employees > Southern Hemisphere. Discrimination sexuelle dans l'emploi > Hémisphère sud. Personnel féminin > Hémisphère sud. Labor market Sex discrimination in employment Unpaid labor Wages > Women Women employees Developing countries Southern Hemisphere Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Part One. Producing Quality Time-use Statistics: Issues Related to Methodology and Harmonization of Concepts and Methods: 1. Assessment of Concepts and Methods Used in Selected Countries in ESCAP Region / Indira Hirway ; 2. Time-use Surveys in Latin America: 2005-15 / Valeria Esquivel ; 3. Time-use Surveys in Africa: Problems and Prospects / Jacques Charmes ; 4. Measurement of Total Working Time with a Gender Perspective: Development of Time-use Surveys in Latin America / Sonia Montano
Part Two. Analytical Tools for Addressing Critical Concerns: 5. Challenges to Measuring Workforce/Labour Force in Global South / Indira Hirway ; 6. Time Use and Job Search among the Unemployed and Underemployed / Hitomi Komatsu ; 7. The Measurement of Time and Income Poverty / Ajit Zacharias ; 8. Time Poverty: A Contributor to Women's Poverty?: Analysis of the Time-use Data in Africa / Omar Ismael Abdourahman ; 9. Public Job-Guarantee Programmes: The Economic Benefits of Investing in Social Care: Case Studies of South Africa and United States / Rania Antonopoulos and Kijong Kim ; 10. Integrating Time Use in Gender Budgeting / Lekha Chakraborty ; 11. Trade Liberalization and Unpaid Work: Integrating Unpaid Work into Macroeconomic Policies / Indira Hirway.