Alfonso Sousa-Poza

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    The allocation and value of time assigned to housework and child-care: An analysis for Switzerland
    (Springer-Verlag, 2003)
    Sousa-Poza, Alfonso  
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    Schmid, Hans
    ;
    Widmer, Rolf
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    Zimmermann, Klaus F.
    ;
    Vogler, Michael
    In this paper, data from the 1997 Swiss Labour Force Survey are used to analyse the allocation and value of time assigned to housework and child-care. It is shown that men’s allocation of time to housework and childcare is largely invariant to changes in socio-economic factors. Women’s allocation of time to housework and child-care, on the other hand, is shown to depend on several social, economic, and demographic factors. The value of time assigned to housework and child-care is calculated with two market replacement cost methods and three opportunity cost methods. The results show that the value of time assigned to housework and child-care ranges from 27% to 39% and from 5% to 8% ofGDP(in 1997), respectively. The value of time assigned to housework and child-care is also calculated for different household structures.
    Type:book section
    DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-55573-2_5
    URI:https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/70692