Marketization of Home Production and Gender Gaps in Working Hours

Robert Duval-Hernandez, Lei Fang and L. Rachel Ngai

Policy Hub, 2021, vol. 2021, issue 7, 7

Abstract: Gender gaps in working hours vary widely across member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. This article summarizes the key results from Duval-Hernández, Fang, and Ngai (2021), who study the source of cross-country differences and what kind of policies can reduce the gap in working hours between women and men.

Keywords: gender ratio; market hours; subsidies on family care; taxes; home production; marketization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 E62 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.29338/ph2021-07

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