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dc.contributor.authorJaramillo, Nicolle
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-13T15:21:05Z
dc.date.available2024-02-13T15:21:05Z
dc.date.issued2024-02-11
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10222/83446
dc.description.abstractEcuadorian women dedicate an average of 38.68 extra weekly hours (5.53 additional hours daily) to unpaid work than men. This study explores the impact of gender, relative income and socio-demographic factors on allocating unpaid work within households. It uses data from the 2007 National Survey on Employment, Unemployment, and Underemployment and the 2012 National Time-Use Survey. The study employs various empirical methods such as Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Censored Regression Models, and the Oaxaca-Blinder Two Fold Decomposition to investigate how relative income is associated with unpaid work allocation. If the gender gap in relative income were eliminated, women's relative income should increase by 30.58%; this change would be associated with a reduction of 3.87 hours in weekly unpaid work (33.18 minutes daily). Notably, only 17.60% of the gap is explained by differences in relative income, underscoring the influence of social norms perpetuating gender biases on the remaining unpaid work disparity.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectUnpaid Worken_US
dc.subjectGender Disparitiesen_US
dc.subjectEcuadoren_US
dc.subjectTime Allocationen_US
dc.subjectTime-use Surveysen_US
dc.titleUnraveling the Unpaid Work Gender Gap: Insights from Ecuadoren_US
dc.date.defence2024-02-10
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Economicsen_US
dc.contributor.degreeMaster of Development Economicsen_US
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dc.contributor.thesis-readerMevlude Akbuluten_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerLars Osbergen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisorDaniel Rosenblumen_US
dc.contributor.ethics-approvalNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.manuscriptsNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.copyright-releaseNot Applicableen_US
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