Gender and Time Use in a Global Context: The Economics of Employment and Unpaid Labor - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1137568364 ISBN 13: 9781137568366

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Synopsis

This edited volume uses a feminist approach to explore the economic implications of the complex interrelationship between gender and time use. Household composition, sexuality, migration patterns, income levels, and race/ethnicity are all considered as important factors that interact with gender and time use patterns. The book is split in two sections: The macroeconomic portion explores cutting edge issues such as time poverty and its relationship to income poverty, and the macroeconomic effects of recession and austerity; while the microeconomic section studies topics such as differences by age, activity sequencing, and subjective well-being of time spent. The chapters also examine a range of age groups, from the labor of school-age children to elderly caregivers, and analyze time use in Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Finland, India, Korea, South Africa, Tanzania, Turkey, and the United States. Each chapter provides a substantial introduction to the academic literature of its focus and is written to be revealing to researchers and accessible to students and policymakers. 

About this title

About the Author

Rachel Connelly is the Bion R. Cram Professor of Economics at Bowdoin College, USA. Her recent research examines time use in the US, particularly as it relates to child caregiving, and the relationships between family structure, age, migration, and time use in China. She is an Associate Editor of Feminist Economics.

Ebru Kongar is Associate Professor of Economics at Dickinson College, USA. Her research focuses on the gendered time use and labor market outcomes of macroeconomic developments, such as deindustrialization, offshoring, and the Great Recession in the US economy. She is an Associate Editor of Feminist Economics.

Contributor Affiliations:

Rania Antonopoulos, Alternate Minister for Labour, Greece; Levy Economics Institute, USA

Lourdes Benería, Cornell University, USA

Judith E. Brown, University of New South Wales, Australia

Rebecca M. Centanni, Analysis Group, Boston, USA

Lyn Craig, University of New South Wales, Australia

Deborah S. DeGraff, Bowdoin College, USA

Esther W. Dungumaro, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Valeria Esquivel, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Maria S. Floro, American University, USA

Erofili Grapsa, Rhodes University, South Africa

İpek İlkkaracan, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

Jiweon Jun, University of Oxford, UK

Charlene Kalenkoski, Texas Tech University, USA

Deborah Levison, University of Minnesota, USA

Fiona MacPhail, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada

Thomas Masterson, Levy Economics Institute, USA

Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Bates College, USA

Emel Memiş, Ankara University, Turkey

Julie A. Nelson, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

Dorrit Posel, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Mark Price, Keystone Research Center, USA

Smriti Rao, Assumption College, USA

Esther D. Rothblum, San Diego State University, USA

Jill Rubery, European Work and Employment Research Centre, UK

Abhilasha Srivastava, American University, USA

Lyndall Strazdins, The Australian National University, Australia

Ajit Zacharias, Levy Economics Institute, USA

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137568364
• ISBN 13: 9781137568366
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 528
• Editor: Connelly Rachel, Kongar Ebru