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Counting unpaid work in Kenya: Gender and age profiles of hours worked and imputed wage incomes

The CWW Kenya research team has published “Counting unpaid work in Kenya: Gender and age profiles of hours worked and imputed wage incomes.” in the Journal of the Economics of Ageing.

Muriithi, M., Mutegi, R., and Mwabu, G. 2017 “Counting unpaid work in Kenya: Gender and age profiles of hours worked and imputed wage incomes.” The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, in press.

ABSTRACT:

The paper first presents profiles of unpaid work by age and gender before turning to profiles of their monetary values. We value unpaid work using a novel data set on hourly wages from the Kenya Gazette on salaries of workers covered by minimum wages mandated by the Government in 2015 (Republic of Kenya, 2015).

We count unpaid work performed by men and women at home, on the farm, and within household enterprises. In particular, focus is on unpaid work that is also typically performed away from home, such as child care. We value unpaid work using the delegation or third party criterion (Reid, 1934; Donehower, 2014).

We find that men work longer hours in household enterprises and earn more than women, but the reverse is true on the farm. The imputed wage incomes from unpaid work on the farm vary by gender and age over the life course, with men’s imputed wage-income profiles dominating women’s at older ages. General policy implications of the findings are briefly discussed.

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NTA XI Conference

A number of country teams presented the research they have been conducting as part of the Counting Women's Work project at the 11th Global Meeting of

A number of country teams presented the research they have been conducting as part of the Counting Women's Work project at the 11th Global Meeting of the NTA Network in Dakar and Saly, Senegal, from 20 to 24 June 2016. Presentations included:

Eugenia Amporfu, D.Sakyi, P.B. Frimpong, E.Arthur, J.Novignon, Measuring the Distribution of Housework among Men and Women in Ghana: The National Time Transfer Accounts Approach
Nguyen Thi Lan Huong, Pham Ngoc Toan, and Pham Minh Thu, Using National Time Transfer Accounts Approach to Analyse Labor Income Gap by Gender in Vietnam
Pamela Jiménez Fontana, Gender inequality on the intergenerational flows in Costa Rica
Laishram Ladusingh, Wake Up India, Count Women's Work
Oumy Laye and Latif Dramani, Trade off Between Labor Market and Domestic Market in Senegal
Moses Muriithi, Reuben Mutegi, Germano Mwabu, The Incomes and Labor Supplies of Unpaid Family Workers in Kenya
Morné Oosthuizen, Counting Women's Work in South Africa
Estela Rivero, Changes in intrahousehold time transfers in Mexico between 2002 and 2014: What accounts for what?

Other presentations related to Counting Women's Work can be found here. One exciting development of the conference was that the group of West African countries involved in creating demographic dividend observatories would incorporate a gender perspective and time use analyses into those plans.

For more information about the NTA XI conference, please visit the conference site.