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Unpaid Work at Home
Author(s) -
SONG YOUNGHWAN
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-232x.2009.00576.x
Subject(s) - unpaid work , earnings , overtime , work (physics) , current population survey , labour economics , demographic economics , inequality , economics , investment (military) , payment , population , business , finance , sociology , demography , political science , mechanical engineering , engineering , mathematical analysis , mathematics , politics , law
A substantial number of people take work home without a formal payment arrangement. Using the Work Schedules and Work at Home Supplement to the May 2001 Current Population Survey, this paper investigates the determinants of unpaid work at home. Education, lack of overtime rates, being a team leader, efficiency wages, and larger earnings inequality in an occupation are positively related to the prevalence of unpaid work at home. Unpaid work at home appears to be a form of investment made in expectation of a return in the long run.