Women’s labor participation and the use of time in house hold care in Mexico

Armando Sánchez Vargas, Ana Liz Herrera Merino and Ignacio Perrotini Hernández ()
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Armando Sánchez Vargas: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Ana Liz Herrera Merino: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Ignacio Perrotini Hernández: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Contaduría y Administración, 2015, vol. 60, issue 3, 651-662

Abstract: This paper presents empirical evidence showing that women’s time assigned to non-paid household work constrains their workforce supply in the formal labor market in México, where house hold duties and child and elderly care activities are mostly undertaken by women. Heckman’s selection model is used in the paper to fix the potential selection bias in the sample as the latter does not directly measure female conditions in the labor market. Our results are based on data from the 2009 Time Use National Poll for the 32 states of the Mexican Republic.

Keywords: Female labor supply; Household care; Household work; Time use; Heckman’s selection model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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