Women's GDP - A Time-Based Input-Output Analysis

Axel Johannes Schaffer and Carsten Stahmer

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES), 2006, vol. 142, issue III, pages 367-394

Abstract: The study identifies women's volume of paid and unpaid work in time units and money values. Therefore, German time use data are combined with the monetary input-output table (IOT) for the year 2000 and its inverse matrix. While the IOT provides information about the industries' direct and indirect contributions to traditional GDP, time use data determine the gender-specific paid and unpaid workload. Thus, women's share in an extended GDP, defined as sum of traditional GDP and household production, can be given. Finally the genders' level of qualification is considered. This allows for an identification of the gender-specific quality of work.

Keywords: Gross Domestic Product; women; time use; input-output analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C82 E60 J16 J21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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