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CWW Policy Brief No. 1

CWW Policy Brief No. 1 demonstrates the importance of CWW research for a number of policy areas in developing countries. It is entitled How “Counting Women’s Work” Matters: Evidence from the Global South.

The first publication in the Counting Women’s Work working paper series focuses on results across a diverse group of countries in the “global south.” The analysis demonstrates that unpaid care work is a huge part of economic activity in these countries. Recognizing and understanding this vast but usually ignored sector of the economy has implications for policies related to labor force participation, girls’ education, family policy, and human capital investment.

CWW Policy Brief No. 1 is entitled How “Counting Women’s Work” Matters: Evidence from the Global South and can be downloaded below.

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CWW Working Paper No.2

CWW Working Paper WP2 is by Estela Rivero and details the CWW research for Mexico. It is entitled: Intergenerational time transfers and their contribution to Mexico's economy in 2014.

Today we publish the second of the Counting Women's Work Working Papers. These working papers provide more detailed analysis than the Country Reports and are authored by the CWW country teams.

CWW Working Paper WP2 is by Estela Rivero and details the CWW research for Mexico. It can be downloaded from the Working Papers page. It is entitled: Intergenerational time transfers and their contribution to Mexico's economy in 2014.

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CWW Working Paper No. 1

CWW Working Paper WP1 is by Pamela Jiménez-Fontana and details the CWW research for Costa Rica. It is entitled: Challenges to increase female labor force participation: Gender Inequality in Costa Rica.

Today we publish a Counting Women's Work Working Paper from Costa Rica. These working papers provide more detailed analysis than the Country Reports and are authored by the CWW country teams.

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CWW Country Report, Vietnam

The third CWW Country Report features results from Vietnam.

CWW country reports provide an overview of the estimates for that country. These include age profiles of market labor income and consumption by sex from National Transfer Accounts. To include unpaid care work, consumption and production from National Time Transfer Accounts are included as well. The third country report published is from Vietnam. Please click the link below to view the report.

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Infographic, Vietnam

CWW infographics summarize the market-based and unpaid care work economy in a country. This post shows the infographic for Vietnam.

Counting Women’s Work estimates of the market and unpaid care work economies can be summarized with a series of statistics. CWW produces infographics to show these results. Infographics are available with a dark or light background. The infographic for Vietnam is shown below.

All infographics are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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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.