Integrating the Social Reproduction of Labour into Macroeconomic Theory

Mark Setterfield

No 2405, Working Papers from New School for Social Research, Department of Economics

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the integration of unpaid care-giving in the household into short- and long-term macroeconomic theory and, in particular, the theoretical structure of production on the supply-side of the economy. The ambition of the project is to furnish a general theoretical representation of how unpaid care giving and its (gendered) social structure contributes to the technical conditions of production in the sphere of marketed output. In so doing, it aims to provide macro theorists with an apparatus that allows consistent description of both short-term (levels of activity) and long-term (rates of growth) macro outcomes in a manner that routinely integrates feminist insights regarding the gendered structure of the social reproduction of labour into macroeconomic analysis.

Keywords: Social reproduction of labour; unpaid care-giving; macroeconomic theory; potential output; natural rate of growth; technical change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B54 E11 E12 E23 J13 J16 J24 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2024-03
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