Wages, housework and attitudes in the Philippines

This paper is one of the few studies that systematically analyzes housework in the Philippines. It seeks to understand how wages and attitudes to work and family life affect the time devoted to housework. Based on different specifications and estimators, our findings indicate that respondents’ own w...

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Main Authors: Dacuycuy, Connie Bayudan-, Dacuycuy, Lawrence B.
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spelling oai:animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph:faculty_research-44552021-09-09T01:24:20Z Wages, housework and attitudes in the Philippines Dacuycuy, Connie Bayudan- Dacuycuy, Lawrence B. This paper is one of the few studies that systematically analyzes housework in the Philippines. It seeks to understand how wages and attitudes to work and family life affect the time devoted to housework. Based on different specifications and estimators, our findings indicate that respondents’ own wages are not a significant predictor of the hours they spend on housework but that they are a significant predictor of the time spouses devote to non-market production. We find that husbands’ housework hours are positively affected by female respondents’ wages, while wives’ housework hours are negatively affected by male respondents’ wages. We turn to the Philippine context to explain these results and find the combination of egalitarian society and gender inequality in the labor market to be plausible explanations. Results also show that both wages and attitudes have direct effects on wives’ housework time but that some of the effects of wages are mediated by respondents’ attitudes toward gender roles. JEL code: D13, J22. © 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. 2018-05-01T07:00:00Z text text/html https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/3453 info:doi/10.1177/0021909616684861 https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/faculty_research/article/4455/type/native/viewcontent/0021909616684861.html Faculty Research Work Animo Repository Housekeeping--Philippines Wages--Philippines Sex role--Philippines
institution De La Salle University
building De La Salle University Library
continent Asia
country Philippines
Philippines
content_provider De La Salle University Library
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topic Housekeeping--Philippines
Wages--Philippines
Sex role--Philippines
spellingShingle Housekeeping--Philippines
Wages--Philippines
Sex role--Philippines
Dacuycuy, Connie Bayudan-
Dacuycuy, Lawrence B.
Wages, housework and attitudes in the Philippines
description This paper is one of the few studies that systematically analyzes housework in the Philippines. It seeks to understand how wages and attitudes to work and family life affect the time devoted to housework. Based on different specifications and estimators, our findings indicate that respondents’ own wages are not a significant predictor of the hours they spend on housework but that they are a significant predictor of the time spouses devote to non-market production. We find that husbands’ housework hours are positively affected by female respondents’ wages, while wives’ housework hours are negatively affected by male respondents’ wages. We turn to the Philippine context to explain these results and find the combination of egalitarian society and gender inequality in the labor market to be plausible explanations. Results also show that both wages and attitudes have direct effects on wives’ housework time but that some of the effects of wages are mediated by respondents’ attitudes toward gender roles. JEL code: D13, J22. © 2017, © The Author(s) 2017.
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author Dacuycuy, Connie Bayudan-
Dacuycuy, Lawrence B.
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Dacuycuy, Lawrence B.
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title Wages, housework and attitudes in the Philippines
title_short Wages, housework and attitudes in the Philippines
title_full Wages, housework and attitudes in the Philippines
title_fullStr Wages, housework and attitudes in the Philippines
title_full_unstemmed Wages, housework and attitudes in the Philippines
title_sort wages, housework and attitudes in the philippines
publisher Animo Repository
publishDate 2018
url https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/3453
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