Accounting for total work in labour statistics

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• 作者：Andrea Brandolini ; Eliana Viviano
• 关键词：Home production ; Work intensity ; Employment rate
• 刊名：Journal for Labour Market Research
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：November 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：49
• 期：3
• 页码：199-212
• 全文大小：1,270 KB
• 刊物主题：Labor Economics; Sociology, general; Human Resource Management; Economic Policy; Regional/Spatial Science; Population Economics;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1867-8343
• 卷排序：49

文摘

The interest for household production has grown since the release of the new System of National Accounts in 2008. In this paper we analyse how accounting for own-use production may affect labour statistics. Traditional headcount ratios may not be very informative when employment rates consider both home and market production, as most people are engaged in at least one of those activities. Hence, we propose a general class of indices based on the hours spent on each type of work that encompasses headcount indicators as a special case. Our empirical analysis based on time use data for a selected group of countries shows that international rankings are sensitive to the shift from headcounts to hour-weighted indices and that accounting for own-use production changes considerably the picture on the work burden of men and women.