Assessing the impact of childcare expansion in Mexico: Time use, employment and poverty

Arbeitspapier

Unpaid care work amounts to an astronomical figure of 2 billion hours per day in the world of which three quarters are performed by women. This reality explains, to a large extent, the little progress that has been seen in reducing gender gaps, as far as employment, wages and use time are concerned. Against this background, the so-called 3R strategy -the Recognition, Reduction and Redistribution of unpaid care work-has been accepted as the main policy intervention towards closing gender gaps (UN Commission on the Status of Women 2014). Based on a measurement method developed by the Levy Institute that combines time and income poverty (called LIMTIP), the authors of this report empirically analyze the net impact on well-being of the expansion of childcare services in Mexico. Specifically, they carry out a comprehensive evaluation with a gender perspective of job creation and income generation, changes in the paid and unpaid workload, and the risk that this may entail in terms of time poverty.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: UNRISD Working Paper ; No. 2022-2

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: Zeitverwendung ; Armut ; Kinderbetreuung ; Beschäftigungseffekt ; Einkommenseffekt ; Weibliche Arbeitskräfte ; Mexiko

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Masterson, Thomas ; Antonopoulos, Rania ; Pires, Luiza Nassif ; Rios-Avila, Fernando ; Zacharias, Ajit
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
• (wo): Geneva
• (wann): 2022

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/273856
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ