Time Use and Transfers in the Americas Producing, Consuming, and Sha

This book provides a comparison of the measurement in time and monetary units of unpaid domestic work in Colombia, Costa Rica, Uruguay, and the Hispanic ethnicity in the United States. A standardized technique allows the development of comparable estimate

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Use and Transfers in the Americas Producing, Consuming, and Sharing Time Across Generations and Genders

Time Use and Transfers in the Americas

B. Piedad Urdinola • Jorge A. Tovar Editors

Time Use and Transfers in the Americas Producing, Consuming, and Sharing Time Across Generations and Genders

Editors B. Piedad Urdinola Department of Statistics Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Bogotá Bogotá, Colombia

Jorge A. Tovar Department of Economics Universidad de los Andes Bogotá, Colombia

ISBN 978-3-030-11805-1 ISBN 978-3-030-11806-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11806-8

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Contents

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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jorge A. Tovar and B. Piedad Urdinola

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Methodology of the National Time Transfer Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . Gretchen Donehower

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Time Use Differences and Similarities between Developed and Emerging Economies in the Americas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gretchen Donehower, Jorge A. Tovar, and B. Piedad Urdinola

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Home and Market Production Time Use Differentials in Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jorge A. Tovar and B. Piedad Urdinola

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Gender Gaps in Costa Rica: Analysis of Time Use and Labor Income by Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pamela Jiménez-Fontana

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Gender Differences in Home Production and Consumption in Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .