Unpaid Care Work's Interference with Paid Work and the Gender Earnings Gap in China

Liangshu Qi and Xiao-yuan Dong

Feminist Economics, 2016, vol. 22, issue 2, 143-167

Abstract: This paper examines the effects of unpaid care work on the earnings of men and women in China by using data from the 2008 China Time Use Survey, the country's first, large-scale time-use survey. The study introduces three indicators to measure the degree to which unpaid care work may “interfere” with paid work, either by directly disrupting it or by being intertwined with it. The regression estimates show that while the amount of time spent on unpaid care work negatively affects the earnings of both men and women, the interference of unpaid work with paid work lowers earnings more for women than for men. Quantitatively, the gender differences in the time spent on unpaid care work and its interference with paid work account for 28 percent of the gender earnings gap in China.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2015.1025803

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