Mainstreaming Unpaid Work Time-use Data in Developing Policies

by Hirway, Indira

• ISBN13: 9780199087549
• ISBN10: 0199087547
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2017-02-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Indira Hirway, Director and Professor of Economics, Centre for Development Alternatives (CFDA), Ahmedabad.

Indira Hirway is Director and Professor of Economics, Centre for Development Alternatives (CFDA), Ahmedabad. She is also National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
List of Abbreviations
1. Introduction - Indira Hirway
PART I Producing Quality Time-use Statistics: Issues Related to Methodology and Harmonization of Concepts and Methods
2. Assessment of Concepts and Methods Used in Selected Countries in ESCAP Region - Indira Hirway
3. Time-use Surveys in Latin America, 20052015 - Valeria Esquivel
4. Time-use Surveys in Africa: Problems and Prospects - Jacques Charmes
5. Measurement of Total Working Time with a Gender Perspective: Development of Time-use Surveys in Latin America - Sonia Montano
PART II Analytical Tools for Addressing Critical Concerns
6. Challenges to Measuring (SNA) Workforce/Labour Force in Global South - Indira Hirway
7. Time Use and Job Search among the Unemployed and Underemployed - Maria Sagrario Floro and Hitomi Komastu
8. The Measurement of Time and Income Poverty - Ajit Zacharias
9. Time Poverty: A Contributor to Womens Poverty?Analysis of the Time-use Data in Africa - Omar Ismael Abdourrahman
10. Public Job-guarantee Programmes: The Economic Benefits of Investing in Social CareCase Studies of South Africa and the United States - Rania Antonopoulos and Kijong Kim
11. Integrating Time Use in Gender Budgeting - Lekha Chakraborty
12. Trade Liberalization and Unpaid Work: Integrating Unpaid Work into Macroeconomic Policies - Indira Hirway
Index
Glossary
About the Editor and Contributors