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Title: Paid care work around the globe: A comparative analysis of 47 countries prepared for UN women
Citation Type: Working Paper
Publication Year: 2019
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Abstract: This paper uses harmonized collections of national labor force datasets to compare the size and shape of the paid care sector around the globe. Paid care workers make up three of the four points of the “care diamond” organizing care provision in any national context: markets, the not-for-profit sector, and the state (the fourth point is families/households).* After explaining our definition of paid care – focused on health care, education, child care, and social services – we examine the size and characteristics of the paid care sector, finding enormous variation across countries. We then explore the relationship between the size of the care sector and various measures of need for care, finding very little evidence of relationship. Finally, we explore wages and working conditions for paid care workers in a subset of countries for which data is available.
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Authors: Armenia, Mignon, Amy; Duffy
Series Title: UN Women
Publication Number: 39
Institution: Econstor
Pages: 1-38
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Data Collections: IPUMS International
Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure
Countries: Armenia, Austria, Botswana, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Kyrgyz Republic, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mali, Malta, Mexico, Mozambique, Nigeria, Palestine, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vietnam, Zambia