Impacts of social protection programmes in Ethiopia on child work and education by Yablonski, J, Woldehanna, T

“…However, Young Lives research has found that different social protection programmes in Ethiopia have had unexpected impacts on girls’ and boys’ participation in school, and in paid and unpaid work. In order to create a win-win situation where both national economic development and children’s rights are realised, it is crucial to have a deeper understanding of the relationship between social protection programmes and children’s time use…”

The community service in Romania. The first community service workshop by Şimon, M., Dobrescu, A.

“…The intimation of this aspect and the desire to promote the non-custodial sanctions among the persons who have violated the criminal law, in 2009, led to the establishment of the first workshop of unpaid work in Romania. The interviews, with the specialists directly involved in this project, show that a sustained effort from the public and private community institutions, the community service workshops can be efficient and viable methods of social reintegration for the criminally sanctioned citizens.…”
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Pratiche politiche neoliberiste e diseguaglianze di genere in India by Matilde Adduci

“…In so doing, the paper initially accounts for the most salient features of the transition to neoliberalism in India, as well as for the increased pressure on women’s double burden of paid and unpaid work associated with neoliberal policies. Specific attention will be paid, on the one hand, to the unfolding of renewed processes of marginalization of female labour and, on the other hand, to the increase in women’s unpaid workload caused by cuts in public expenditures and privatization policies. …”
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Helping University Students Succeed at Employment Interviews: The Role of Self-Reflection in e-Portfolios by Christine Lackner, Tanya Martini

“…Students indicated that the majority of their significant learning experiences had taken place outside of the classroom (e.g., paid and unpaid work, extracurricular activities). Across the duration of the course, students improved on all metrics of interview performance, and final interview performance was predicted by student grades on a self reflective e-portfolio, but not other course assignments.…”
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Networked but commodified: The (dis)embeddedness of digital labour in the gig economy by Wood, A, Graham, M, Lehdonvirta, V, Hjorth, I

“…It also endangers social reproduction by limiting access to healthcare and requiring workers to engage in significant unpaid ‘work-for-labour’. However, we show that these workers are also simultaneously embedded within interpersonal networks of trust, which enable the work to be completed despite the low-trust nature of the gig economy. …”

Women and men at work by Andrew, A, Bandiera, O, Costa Dias, M, Landais, C

“…We explore gender inequalities in paid and unpaid work with a focus on the UK. The average working-age woman in the UK earned 40% less than her male counterpart in 2019; sizeable gender gaps in participation, hours worked and hourly wages all contribute to this gap. …”

A Pluralist Account of Labour Participation in India. by Olsen, W, Mehta, S

“…Many women at the bottom of the U are doing extra-domestic work, so a detailed measurement of both domestic work and other unpaid work is provided. Women in the Muslim cultural group do more extra-domestic work (and are more likely to be 'inactive') than women in other cultural groups. …”

Precarious Care Labor: Contradictory Work Regulations and Practices for Au Pairs in Sweden by Terese Anving, Sara Eldén

“…This is analyzed in relation to theoretical elaborations of paid and unpaid work, as well as discussions of care as a practice where ‘work’ and ‘emotion’ is inherently intertwined.…”
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Gender and water security in Burkina Faso: lessons for adaptation (SEI Policy brief) by Dickin, S

“…<p>In many countries, traditional divisions of labour mean that women conduct the majority of unpaid work related to the collection, transport, and management of water supplies for drinking and other domestic uses.…”

Children’s educational completion rates and dropouts in the context of Ethiopia’s national poverty reduction strategy by Woldehanna, T

“…While the policy focus of the 1996-initiated ESDP and the SDPRP (2002-5) on increasing educational access for all has been broadly successful, children from poor and/or highly indebted families still face significant constraints because they have to contribute to household survival through paid and unpaid work. It is therefore imperative to increase efforts to improve the livelihood options of the poor, including greater income generation opportunities, particularly in rural areas and for women. …”

Housework participation and fertility intentions: analysing the gendered division of labour and fertility in Taiwan by Kolpashnikova, KK, Kan, M

“…</p> <p><strong>Originality</strong> The paper extends the existing literature on the effects of husbands’ unpaid work participation on wives’ fertility intentions.…”

‘The best job in the world’: Breadwinning and the capture of household labour in 19th and early 20th Century British coal mining by Humphries, J, Thomas, R

“…Using evidence from Britain, this article exposes a different reality of household economics characterized by dominance and subordination: All family members were integrated into the coalmining production process and the creation of profit. Women's unpaid work did not simply provide domestic comfort; it transferred well-being from women and children to men and simultaneously contributed to the colliery companies’ profits. …”

Education and the division of household labor in dual-earner families by Miettinen Anneli

“…This article is the first report of a study on policies and the division of paid and unpaid work in families in Finland. The article examines the division ofhousehold labor and its determinants in Finnish dual-eamer families. …”
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Household time allocation in Russia: economic or sociocultural model? by Elina A. Bugdaeva

“…This is expressed in the increase in women’s unpaid work on weekends as compensation for missing out on household chores during the working weekdays. …”
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Gender Differentiation and New Trends Concerning the Division of Household Labour within Couples: The Case of Emergency Physicians by Catarina Delaunay

“…However, along with the persistence of‘traditional’ gender roles in unpaid work, especially at some stages of the family life cycle, there arenew trends of ‘modernisation’ concerning sex-role attitudes. …”
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Work ethic and degrowth in a changing Atlantic Canada by Karen Foster

“…Abstract This article draws on interviews, observations, and surveys from two mixed-methods sociological studies of people's relationships to paid and unpaid work to argue that the concept of the work ethic is a fruitful entrypoint for exploring critical issues of work, leisure and consumption in rural places, and indeed anywhere there are efforts to realize degrowth strategies. …”
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Cross-national changes in time-use: some sociological (hi)stories re-examined. by Sullivan, O, Gershuny, J

“…The focus is on large-scale cross-national time trends from developed countries in paid and unpaid work, and leisure. Reference is made to some well-known sociological and historical accounts of such change, and to the fact that time-use diary data has only relatively recently become available for analysing trends over time. …”

Evolving time use of children growing up in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam, 2006-2016 by Espinoza-Revollo, P, Porter, C

“…Using detailed and comparable time-use data of children in four low- and middle-income countries, this working paper documents the evolution of their time spent on education, paid and unpaid work as they age from 5 to 15 years. Despite gendered di&#xFB00;erences in which tasks they undertake, total allocation of time to work (paid, unpaid and household chores) is not significantly di&#xFB00;erent between boys and girls, except in India. …”

Children’s educational completion rates and dropouts in the context of Ethiopia’s national poverty reduction strategy by Woldehanna, T

“…While the policy focus of the 1996-initiated ESDP and the SDPRP (2002-5) on increasing educational access for all has been broadly successful, children from poor and/or highly indebted families still face significant constraints because they have to contribute to household survival through paid and unpaid work. It is therefore imperative to increase efforts to improve the livelihood options of the poor, including greater income generation opportunities, particularly in rural areas and for women. …”

A data-driven analysis of workers' earnings on Amazon Mechanical Turk by Adams, A, hara, K, Milland, K, Savage, S, Callison-Burch, C, Bigham, J

“…Our wage calculations are influenced by how unpaid work is accounted for, e.g., time spent searching for tasks, working on tasks that are rejected, and working on tasks that are ultimately not submitted. …”