Gender and time use in a global context : the economics of employment and unpaid labor /: the economics of employment and unpaid labor. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Rachel Connelly, Ebru Kongar, editors.
• Editors: Connelly, Rachel; Kongar, Mesude Ebru
• Contents: Gender and Time Use in a Global Context; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Feminist Approaches to Time Use; 1 Introduction; 2 Macroeconomic Topics in Time Use and Gender; 2.1 Engendering Macroeconomics; 2.2 Two-Way Relationships Between Gender Inequalities and Economic Crises and the Subsequent Policy Responses; 2.3 Unpaid Housework and Care Work in Hard Times; 2.4 Poverty: Income Poverty, Time Poverty, and Poverty as Capability Deprivation; 2.5 Rural-Urban Divide Interacts with Gender and Class Inequalities Affecting Migration Patterns. 3 Microeconomic Topics of Time Use and Gender3.1 The Purpose to Which We Devout Our Time Matters; 3.2 At Any Moment of Time We Can Be Doing More than One Thing; 3.3 When We Do What We Do Matters; 3.4 We Live with Others and Trade Time; 3.5 Since We Are Putting in the Time, We Are Impacted Immediately by Our Time Use; 4 Conclusion; Notes; References; PART I Gender, Time Use, and the Macroeconomy; Unpaid Work in Macroeconomics: A Stocktaking Exercise; 1 Introduction; 2 National Income Accounting and Unpaid Work: Household Satellite Gross Domestic Product Accounts. 3 Impact of Macroeconomic Phenomena on Unpaid Work4 Impact of Unpaid Work and Its Gendered Allocation on Macroeconomic Outcomes; 4.1 Unpaid Work in Macro Modeling; 4.2 Policy Simulations on Impact of Redistribution of Unpaid Work on Macroeconomic Outcomes; 4.3 Long-run Sustainable Growth and Unpaid Work; 5 Conclusion; Notes; References; The Challenge of Austerity for Gender Equality in Europe: A Consideration of Eight Countries at the Center of the Crisis; 1 Introduction; 2 European Gender Regimes Pre Crisis: Converging Divergences. 3 Gendered Labor Market Effects Under Recession and Austerity: Main Trends3.1 Recession Effects -- 'He-cession'; 3.2 Austerity Effects -- From 'He-cession' to 'Sh(e) Austerity?'; 3.3 Labor Market Flexibility and Deregulation; 4 Austerity and the Development of Gender Regimes in Europe; 4.1 Labor Market Developments; 4.2 Social Policy Developments; 4.3 Gender Relations and Ideology; 5 Conclusions; References; Women, Recession, and Austerity: A Comment on "The Challenge of Gender Austerity for Equality: A Consideration of Eight European Countries in the Crisis"; References. Paid and Unpaid Work Time by Labor Force Status of Prime Age Women and Men in Canada: The Great Recession and Gender Inequality in Work Time1 Introduction; 2 Recessions, Gender, and Work Time: Five Key Hypotheses; 2.1 He-cession and Industrial Sex Segregation; 2.2 He-recovery and Male-oriented Stimulus Policy (and Female-oriented Austerity); 2.3 Recession and Added Women Workers and Discouraged Men Workers; 2.4 Great Recession and Increased Unpaid Work; 2.5 Great Recession Increases Unpaid Work to a Greater Extent for Women than Men; 3 Empirical Approach.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY, U.S.A : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (505 pages)
• Subjects: 331.4; Unpaid labor; Time management -- Sex differences; Women -- Employment; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations; Unpaid labor; Women -- Employment; Economics; International Economics; Labor Economics; Behavioral/Experimental Economics; Electronic books; Electronic book
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137568373; 1137568372; 1137568364; 9781137568366
• Related ISBNs: 9781137568366
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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