Abstract
In the United Kingdom informal carers are people who look after relatives or friends
who need extra support because of age, physical or learning disability or illness.
ABSTRACT
Across southern Africa, policy-makers are promoting home-based care for HIV/
AIDS patients as a cheaper alternative to hospital care.
However, cost studies
have not sufficiently considered the costs and benefits to all stakeholders in
home-based care.1 Drawing on existing literature, this study shows that available
data are grossly inadequate for a comprehensive assessment of the costeffectiveness of home-based care. Previous studies have largely ignored many of
the costs associated with home-based care, which is currently borne by unpaid
caregivers – predominantly women – as well as the value of their unpaid labor.
This study questions the assumption that home-based care is cheaper than
hospital care and the wisdom of enacting home-based care policies. This study
argues that conclusions about the cheaper form of care can be drawn only by
assessing all of the
https://genderlibrary.org/a/images/papers/UnpaidAIDSCareFeministEconomicspublishedversion.pdf
This paper examines the role of the doing-gender hypothesis versus traditional models of the household in explaining how the woman's share of home labor varies with relative earnings.
Abstract
This study analyzes the challenges facing Burmese women factory workers in Thailand who seek to secure the daily reproduction of their labor power as well as the generational reproduction of their children.
Abstract
Since the 1980s, women have become joint breadwinners in many households in Spain.
- EMBEDDING CARE AND UNPAID WORK IN MACROECONOMIC MODELING: A STRUCTURALIST APPROACH
- Migrant Women, Care Work, and Women's Employment in Greece
- Unfolding Patterns of Unpaid Household Work in Latin America
- The Impact of China's New Rural Pension Program on Elderly Labor, Grandchild Care, and Old-Age Support