Structural transformation, marketization, and household production around the world

Benjamin Bridgman, Georg Dürnecker and Berthold Herrendorf
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Georg Duernecker

Munich Reprints in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics

Abstract: We provide evidence on the patterns of household production in 43 developing and developed countries. Household hours account on average for nearly half of the total hours worked in the household and the market. The vast majority of household hours produce services. As GDP per capita increases, average total hours worked and average household hours per working-age population decrease while average market hours increase ("marketization");hours producing services increase their share in total hours ("structural transformation"). The decrease in household hours is mostly due to changes in housework (cleaning, cooking etc.) and marketization is mostly due to changes in women's hours. Within countries, more educated people work more in the market and less in the household. We also impute the labor productivity of household production for 34 countries of our sample. We find that it is positively correlated with and much lower than that in the market.

Date: 2018
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (34)

Published in Journal of Development Economics 133(2018): pp. 102-126

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
Journal Article: Structural transformation, marketization, and household production around the world (2018)
Working Paper: Structural Transformation, Marketization, and Household Production around the World (2017)
Working Paper: Structural Transformation, Marketization, and Household Production around the World (2015)
Working Paper: Structural Transformation, Marketization, and Household Production around the World (2015)
Working Paper: Structural transformation, marketization, and household production around the world (2015)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:lmu:muenar:62856

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Munich Reprints in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics Ludwigstr. 28, 80539 Munich, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tamilla Benkelberg ().