Mainstreaming Unpaid Work
Time-use Data in Developing Policies
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9780199468256
Publication date:
03/01/2017
Hardback
472 pages
Price: 1195.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199468256
Publication date:
03/01/2017
Hardback
472 pages
Edited by Indira Hirway
This book establishes the necessity of measuring and incorporating unpaid work in analysing the critical concerns of an economy. It presents different analytical tools that deal with estimating income and time poverty, understanding employment and unemployment, improving gender budgeting, and analysing the impact of various macroeconomic policies on paid and unpaid work.
Rights: World Rights
Edited by Indira Hirway
Description
Unpaid work, across the world, is an area that has generally been neglected by economists as well as development actors. Yet the amount of unpaid work done and the manner in which its burden is distributed have important implications for the well-being of individuals and households, as well as for any economy’s growth and dynamism.
This book establishes the necessity of measuring and incorporating unpaid work in analysing the critical concerns of an economy. As a first step, it focuses on gathering quality statistics and methodologies required to conduct time-use surveys in moving towards integrating unpaid work in policymaking.
After assessing various time-use surveys from the Global South—Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Africa—the book shows why time-use data is essential for understanding critical socio-economic concerns. It presents different analytical tools that deal with estimating income and time poverty, understanding employment and unemployment, improving gender budgeting, and analysing the impact of various macroeconomic policies on paid and unpaid work.
The book, thus, provides important insights for moving towards gender equality, women’s empowerment, as also the overall well-being and inclusive development of a nation.
About the Editor
Indira Hirway is director and professor, Centre for Development Alternatives, Ahmedabad, India, and national fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, India.
Kindly download the flyer for more details.
Edited by Indira Hirway
Table of contents
List of Tables, Figures, and Box
Foreword by T.C.A Anant
Preface by Rebecca Reichmann Tavares
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
Introduction
Indira Hirway
Part One: Producing Quality Time-use Statistics: Issues Related to Methodology and Harmonization of Concepts and Methods
1. Assessment of Concepts and Methods Used in Selected Countries in ESCAP Region
Indira Hirway
2. Time-use Surveys in Latin America: 2005–15
Valeria Esquivel
3. Time-use Surveys in Africa: Problems and Prospects
Jacques Charmes
4. Measurement of Total Working Time with a Gender Perspective: Development of Time-use Surveys in Latin America
Sonia Montaño
Part Two: Analytical Tools for Addressing Critical Concerns
5. Challenges to Measuring Workforce/Labour Force in Global South
Indira Hirway
6. Time Use and Job Search among the Unemployed and Underemployed
Maria Sagario Floro and Hitomi Komatsu
7. The Measurement of Time and Income Poverty
Ajit Zacharias
8. Time Poverty: A Contributor to Women’s Poverty? Analysis of the Time-use Data in Africa
Omar Ismael Abdourahman
9. Public Job-Guarantee Programmes: The Economic Benefits of Investing in Social Care—Case Studies of South Africa and United States
Rania Antonopoulos and Kijong Kim
10. Integrating Time Use in Gender Budgeting
Lekha Chakraborty
11. Trade Liberalization and Unpaid Work: Integrating Unpaid Work into Macroeconomic Policies
Indira Hirway
Glossary
Index
About the Editor and Contributors
Edited by Indira Hirway
Features
- Analyses time-use surveys of the different regions of the Global South
- Discusses how time-use data can be used for addressing critical socioeconomic concerns of an economy and how it can be integrated into national policymaking
Edited by Indira Hirway
Description
Unpaid work, across the world, is an area that has generally been neglected by economists as well as development actors. Yet the amount of unpaid work done and the manner in which its burden is distributed have important implications for the well-being of individuals and households, as well as for any economy’s growth and dynamism.
This book establishes the necessity of measuring and incorporating unpaid work in analysing the critical concerns of an economy. As a first step, it focuses on gathering quality statistics and methodologies required to conduct time-use surveys in moving towards integrating unpaid work in policymaking.
After assessing various time-use surveys from the Global South—Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Africa—the book shows why time-use data is essential for understanding critical socio-economic concerns. It presents different analytical tools that deal with estimating income and time poverty, understanding employment and unemployment, improving gender budgeting, and analysing the impact of various macroeconomic policies on paid and unpaid work.
The book, thus, provides important insights for moving towards gender equality, women’s empowerment, as also the overall well-being and inclusive development of a nation.
About the Editor
Indira Hirway is director and professor, Centre for Development Alternatives, Ahmedabad, India, and national fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, India.
Kindly download the flyer for more details.
Table of contents
List of Tables, Figures, and Box
Foreword by T.C.A Anant
Preface by Rebecca Reichmann Tavares
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
Introduction
Indira Hirway
Part One: Producing Quality Time-use Statistics: Issues Related to Methodology and Harmonization of Concepts and Methods
1. Assessment of Concepts and Methods Used in Selected Countries in ESCAP Region
Indira Hirway
2. Time-use Surveys in Latin America: 2005–15
Valeria Esquivel
3. Time-use Surveys in Africa: Problems and Prospects
Jacques Charmes
4. Measurement of Total Working Time with a Gender Perspective: Development of Time-use Surveys in Latin America
Sonia Montaño
Part Two: Analytical Tools for Addressing Critical Concerns
5. Challenges to Measuring Workforce/Labour Force in Global South
Indira Hirway
6. Time Use and Job Search among the Unemployed and Underemployed
Maria Sagario Floro and Hitomi Komatsu
7. The Measurement of Time and Income Poverty
Ajit Zacharias
8. Time Poverty: A Contributor to Women’s Poverty? Analysis of the Time-use Data in Africa
Omar Ismael Abdourahman
9. Public Job-Guarantee Programmes: The Economic Benefits of Investing in Social Care—Case Studies of South Africa and United States
Rania Antonopoulos and Kijong Kim
10. Integrating Time Use in Gender Budgeting
Lekha Chakraborty
11. Trade Liberalization and Unpaid Work: Integrating Unpaid Work into Macroeconomic Policies
Indira Hirway
Glossary
Index
About the Editor and Contributors
