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Article: Market-procured housework: The demand for domestic servants and female labor supply

TitleMarket-procured housework: The demand for domestic servants and female labor supply
Authors
Suen, W
KeywordsDomestic servants
Household production
Time allocation
Issue Date1994
PublisherElsevier BV. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/labeco
Citation
Labour Economics, 1994, v. 1 n. 3-4, p. 289-302 How to Cite?
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0927-5371(94)90014-0
AbstractDomestic servants and a woman's own time are substitutes in the household production process. The demand for servants increases with the woman's market wage, her non-wage income, and the presence of young children in the family. A bivariate probit model using data from Hong Kong suggests that women who participate in the labor force have a 0.008 higher probability of having servants than women who are not in the labor force. Conversely, women who have servants have a 0.22 higher probability of labor force participation than women with no servants. In households that use market-procured domestic help, the presence of young children is found to have no negative effect on female labor force participation. © 1994.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/48711
ISSN
0927-5371
2023 Impact Factor: 2.2
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.818

 

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dc.description.abstractDomestic servants and a woman's own time are substitutes in the household production process. The demand for servants increases with the woman's market wage, her non-wage income, and the presence of young children in the family. A bivariate probit model using data from Hong Kong suggests that women who participate in the labor force have a 0.008 higher probability of having servants than women who are not in the labor force. Conversely, women who have servants have a 0.22 higher probability of labor force participation than women with no servants. In households that use market-procured domestic help, the presence of young children is found to have no negative effect on female labor force participation. © 1994.en_HK
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dc.rightsLabour Economics. Copyright © Elsevier BV.en_HK
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dc.subjectDomestic servantsen_HK
dc.subjectHousehold productionen_HK
dc.subjectTime allocationen_HK
dc.titleMarket-procured housework: The demand for domestic servants and female labor supplyen_HK
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