Time Use and Transfers in the Americas
Gebundenes Buch

Time Use and Transfers in the Americas

Producing, Consuming, and Sharing Time Across Generations and Genders

Herausgegeben: Urdinola, B. Piedad; Tovar, Jorge A.
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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...