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Discounted labour? Disaggregating care work in comparative perspective
Author(s) -
LIGHTMAN Naomi
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international labour review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.433
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1564-913X
pISSN - 0020-7780
DOI - 10.1111/ilr.12001
Subject(s) - care work , argument (complex analysis) , earnings , china , work (physics) , convergence (economics) , globalization , welfare , perspective (graphical) , economics , labour economics , welfare state , demographic economics , closure (psychology) , inequality , public economics , economic growth , political science , market economy , accounting , mechanical engineering , mathematical analysis , biochemistry , chemistry , mathematics , artificial intelligence , politics , law , computer science , engineering
This article contrasts the earnings of high‐ and low‐status care workers in Canada, the United States, Japan, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan (China) using the micro‐data files of the Luxembourg Income Study. By disaggregating existing definitions of care work, the author identifies occupations with lower and higher degrees of “social closure”, revealing the associated care penalties and care bonuses cross‐nationally. She also empirically measures the extent of similarities (and differences) between and within care economies in “liberal” and “productivist developmental” welfare regimes, offering support for the argument that globalization has fostered substantial convergence within the international care market.