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Unpaid Care Work's Interference with Paid Work and the Gender Earnings Gap in China

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  • Liangshu Qi
  • Xiao-yuan Dong

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This paper examines the effects of unpaid care work on the earnings of men and women in China by using data from the 2008 China Time Use Survey, the country's first, large-scale time-use survey. The study introduces three indicators to measure the degree to which unpaid care work may “interfere” with paid work, either by directly disrupting it or by being intertwined with it. The regression estimates show that while the amount of time spent on unpaid care work negatively affects the earnings of both men and women, the interference of unpaid work with paid work lowers earnings more for women than for men. Quantitatively, the gender differences in the time spent on unpaid care work and its interference with paid work account for 28 percent of the gender earnings gap in China.

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  • Liangshu Qi & Xiao-yuan Dong, 2016. "Unpaid Care Work's Interference with Paid Work and the Gender Earnings Gap in China," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(2), pages 143-167, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:femeco:v:22:y:2016:i:2:p:143-167
    DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2015.1025803
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    1. Ye Liu, 2023. "As the Two-Child Policy Beckons: Work–Family Conflicts, Gender Strategies and Self-Worth among Women from the First One-Child Generation in Contemporary China," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 37(1), pages 20-38, February.
    2. Xueqian Chen, 2024. "The Gendered Division of Housework in China: Parenthood Effects and Heterogeneity Across Parenthood Stages," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 43(2), pages 1-33, April.
    3. Asadullah, M. Niaz & Xiao, Saizi, 2020. "The changing pattern of wage returns to education in post-reform China," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 53(C), pages 137-148.
    4. Niu, Geng & Wang, Qi & Li, Han & Zhou, Yang, 2020. "Number of brothers, risk sharing, and stock market participation," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 113(C).
    5. Huamin Chai & Rui Fu & Peter C. Coyte, 2021. "Does Unpaid Caregiving Erode Working Hours Among Middle-Aged Chinese Adults?," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 157(3), pages 977-999, October.

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