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Unpaid Work in Macroeconomics: A Stocktaking Exercise

İlkkaracan, İpek·2017·Gender and Time Use in a Global Context
DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-56837-3_2
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This chapter takes stock of what has been done so far in integrating unpaid work as an analytical category into macroeconomic analysis. This literature review is structured under three main topics: reconceptualization of macroeconomic phenomena to encompass unpaid work; impact of macroeconomic policies through gendered allocation of unpaid work; exploration of the impact of unpaid work on macroeconomic outcomes through macroeconomic modeling, policy simulations and in the context of long-run sustainable growth. The review shows that gendered distribution of unpaid work acts in two-way interaction with macroeconomic phenomena. Production of goods and services through unpaid caring labor act as an important determinant of macroeconomic indicators, while ignorance of unpaid work in macroeconomic analysis leads to deficiencies in policy design and implementation.

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  • Care work entails a substantial amount of unpaid reproductive and provisioning work dependent on land and water as inputs.

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Authors
İlkkaracan, İ.
Affiliations
Istanbul Technical University (TR)
Corresponding author
İlkkaracan, İpek
ORCID
İlkkaracan, İpek
Venue
Gender and Time Use in a Global Context
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Published
2017
Pages
29-50
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-56837-3_2
OpenAlex
W2735010314
Cited by
6
References
0
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2017: 1
FWCI
1.54
Type
book chapter
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (unspecified)
Locations
  • Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks (publishedVersion)
  • Istanbul Technical University Academic Open Archive (Istanbul Technical University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › General Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economic Theory and Policy
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Work-Family Balance Challenges
Keywords
unpaid work, unpaid care work, gender division of labor, macroeconomic modeling, macroeconomic policy, sustainable growth, household production, policy simulation

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