Bringing Household Services Out of the Shadows Formalising Non-Care Work in and Around the House

Despite years of growth in the number of women in paid work, gender roles in unpaid housework have remained remarkably rigid. Unpaid housework can be outsourced to non-care household service providers, such as cleaners or housekeepers, however, high prices, a substantial tax burden and a lack of eas...

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Autor principal: OECD (-)
Autor Corporativo: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), author, issuing body (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Paris : OECD Publishing 2021.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 Introduction and main findings
  • 2 Non-care household services in the OECD
  • 2.1. Formal employment
  • 2.2. Informal work
  • 2.3. Platform work
  • 3 Unpaid housework
  • 3.1. The distribution of unpaid housework
  • 3.2. The economic value of unpaid housework
  • 4 International approaches to household service formalisation
  • 4.1. Policy objectives
  • 4.2. Policy instruments
  • 4.2.1. Tax credits
  • Refundability of tax credits
  • Operational issues
  • 4.2.2. Social vouchers
  • 4.2.3. Declarative systems
  • 4.2.4. Other instruments
  • 4.3. Services covered
  • 4.4. Size of the programmes
  • 4.4.1. Public spending
  • 4.4.2. Employment
  • 4.5. Work arrangements and working conditions
  • 4.5.1. Tripartite set-ups
  • Direct employment by households and its drawbacks
  • Other work arrangements
  • 4.6. Professionalization and training
  • 4.7. Effects of the policies
  • 4.7.1. Consumption patterns
  • 4.7.2. Consumption groups
  • 4.7.3. Household service employment
  • 4.7.4. Undeclared work
  • 4.7.5. Female employment
  • 4.7.6. Earn-back effects
  • Annex A. Other international systems.