Care work and the demographic composition of households: two Asian cases

Elizabeth King, Hannah Randolph () and Jooyeoun Suh
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Jooyeoun Suh: Seoul National University

Philippine Review of Economics, 2023, vol. 60, issue 1, 158-190

Abstract: Who provides unpaid caregiving within the household is of economic and policy relevance. This paper examines how care activities are shared among household members, the extent to which women and men substitute for each other in care and work activities, and whether or not they realize economies of scale in care work. Mongolia and South Korea have nationally representative time-use survey data that allow an exploration of these questions. These two countries differ in their level of economic development and industrial structure, demographic profile, and household composition, providing a comparative perspective on the allocation of time to childcare, domestic work and market work within households. The maximum likelihood estimation results reveal significant evidence of substitution between men and women in childcare, but much less so in domestic work or indirect care, and economies of scale in the care of young children and in women's domestic work.

Keywords: household time allocation; household composition and care work; economies of scale (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D13 J13 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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