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Title: Womens Employment, Unpaid Work and Economic Wellbeing: A Cross-National Anaylsis

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: Most studies of the impact of increases in womens employment on earnings inequality ignore associated declines in the amount of time women devote to unpaid work. In this paper, we link estimates of time devoted to unpaid work among partnered couples ages 25-59 from the Harmonized European Time Use Survey and the American Time Use Survey to estimates of household earnings for similar couples for whom we have microdata in the LIS database. Our results demonstrate the equalizing impact of unpaid work hours in nine countries, as well as the equalizing impact of the imputed value of unpaid work based on replacement cost estimates using national minimum wages as a lower bound and median wages for men and women as an upper bound.

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Authors: Connolly, Helen; Folbre, Nancy; Gornick, Janet C.; Munzi, Teresa

Conference Name: Status of Middle Class: Lessons from the Luxembourg Income Study Conference

Publisher Location: Luxembourg

Data Collections: IPUMS Time Use - ATUS

Topics: Family and Marriage, Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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