Overview
- Provides a novel comparative analysis of time transfers by age and gender
- Offers deep insights on the effect of different cultural and institutional settings
- Maps profiles of time consumption, production and transfers, by age and sex, for a large number of European countries ?
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Population Studies (BRIEFSPOPULAT)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This comparative study of European time transfers reveals the full extent of transfers in the form of unpaid work and highlights the existence of important gender differences in household time production. A large quantity of goods and services are produced by household members for their own consumption, without involving market transactions. Despite the economic and social importance of unpaid work, these productive activities are largely invisible to traditional national economic accounts. As a consequence, standard measures of intergenerational transfers typically ignore household production, and thus underestimate the overall value of goods and services produced over the life cycle; in particular, the economic contribution of females. The book uses a life course approach to offer policy-relevant insights into the effect of demographic and social change on intergenerational ties and gender inequality in household production.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Comparative Analysis of European Time Transfers between Generations and Genders
Authors: Emilio Zagheni, Marina Zannella, Gabriel Movsesyan, Brittney Wagner
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Population Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9591-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2015 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9590-6Published: 22 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9591-3Published: 08 December 2014
Series ISSN: 2211-3215
Series E-ISSN: 2211-3223
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 48
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Demography, Family, Gender Studies, Population Economics, Social Structure, Social Inequality