NDLI: How does paid work affect who does the childcare? An analysis of the time use of Australian couples

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Author	Argyrous, George Rahman, Sara
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	This paper analyzes the effect of paid work by coupled parents of young children on the joint decisions to spend time engaged in childcare. We explore this using Australian Time-Use Survey data from 2006. We examine the effect of paid work in terms of the effect that total work time on a given day has on the amount of time spent on childcare; the allocation of time on activities across work and non-work days; and the effect of non-traditional work hours. The results show that mothers perform a large share of childcare, irrespective of their earning power or their partner’s availability to take on some of these tasks. The use of formal and informal childcare by others allows the mother to balance the competing demands of work and her own childcare; an effect that does not hold for fathers. These effects on childcare are also almost solely concentrated in the routine component of childcare (e.g. preparing meals, changing nappies), with each parent ‘protecting’ interactive childcare from the effect of both paid work and the relative availability of their partner to take on some of this childcare.
Starting Page	383
Ending Page	398
Page Count	16
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15695239
Journal	Review of Economics of the Household
Volume Number	15
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15737152
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2014-10-18
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Time-use Childcare time Employment Gender Time allocation Australian Time-Use Survey Hours of work Labor force participation Microeconomics Labor Economics Population Economics Social Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Social Sciences Economics and Econometrics

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