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Wage Effects on the Volume of Unpaid Work in Nuclear Australian Households
Author(s) -
Williams Ross A.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
australian economic papers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.351
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1467-8454
pISSN - 0004-900X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8454.00044
Subject(s) - unpaid work , economics , wage , work (physics) , labour economics , demographic economics , paid work , hourly wage , wage rate , working hours , mechanical engineering , engineering
Using the 1992 Australian Time‐Use Survey, empirical estimates are obtained of the determinants of unpaid work in nuclear household by each adult. Eight types of unpaid work are examined. Wage rates and demographic variables are found to exert most influence on household time devoted to unpaid work. The strongest result is the negative effect of the female wage rate on unpaid work undertaken by females.