Emilio Zagheni, Marina Zannella, Gabriel Movsesyan, Brittney Wagner
This comparative study of European time transfers reveals the full extent of transfers in the form of unpaid work and highlights the existence of important gender differences in household time production. A large quantity of goods and services are produced by household members for their own consumption, without involving market transactions. Despite the economic and social importance of unpaid work, these productive activities are largely invisible to traditional national economic accounts. As a consequence, standard measures of intergenerational transfers typically ignore household...
This comparative study of European time transfers reveals the full extent of transfers in the form of unpaid work and highlights the existence of impo...