Time Use and Transfers in the Americas : Producing, Consuming, and Sharing Time Across Generations and Genders

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-vii Introduction (Jorge A. Tovar, B. Piedad Urdinola)....Pages 1-4 Methodology of the National Time Transfer Accounts (Gretchen Donehower)....Pages 5-40 Time Use Differences and Similarities between Developed and Emerging Economies in the Americas (Gretchen Donehower, Jorge A. Tovar, B. Piedad Urdinola)....Pages 41-55 Home and Market Production Time Use Differentials in Colombia (Jorge A. Tovar, B. Piedad Urdinola)....Pages 57-76 Gender Gaps in Costa Rica: Analysis of Time Use and Labor Income by Education (Pamela Jiménez-Fontana)....Pages 77-96 Gender Differences in Home Production and Consumption in Uruguay (Marisa Bucheli, Cecilia González, Cecilia Lara)....Pages 97-118 Gender and Work in the United States and Patterns by Hispanic Ethnicity (Gretchen Donehower)....Pages 119-142 Back Matter ....Pages 143-144