Overview
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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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
B. Piedad Urdinola is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics of the National University of Colombia-Bogotá. She holds a Ph.D. in Demography at the University of Berkeley. Recipient of the Tinker Visiting Professor at Stanford University (2011) and Visiting Professor Santo Domingo at the University of Harvard (2015). Its research agenda covers issues of demography, of conflict, underreporting of mortality, mortality projections, aging and time use, and adolescent fertility. She co-directs and manages the Latin American Human Mortality Database and directs the chapter for Colombia of the international project National Transfers Accounts.
Jorge Tovar is currently associate professor at the economics department, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota - Colombia. He holds a BA and MA degree in economics from Universidad de Los Andes and a Ph.D. in Economics from U.C. Berkeley. He has been a visiting scholar at the Centre for Latin American Studies at Stanford. His research fields focus on International Trade, Industrial Organization and he has particular interest in the economics of households as well as sports economics. He has published chapters and books on the topic and a number of papers in journals such as World Development, Science, The Review of Industrial Organization or The Developing Economies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Time Use and Transfers in the Americas
Book Subtitle: Producing, Consuming, and Sharing Time Across Generations and Genders
Editors: B. Piedad Urdinola, Jorge A. Tovar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11806-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-11805-1Published: 04 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-11806-8Published: 27 March 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 144
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Population Economics, Demography