The Home as Factory Floor: Employment and Remuneration of Home-Based Workers
Home-based work, defined as nonprofessionals who perform market work from their homes, is an increasingly recognized form of employment in Latin America. The majority of the research on this segment of the labor force relies on small sample, qualit...
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okr-10986-141052021-04-23T14:03:20Z The Home as Factory Floor: Employment and Remuneration of Home-Based Workers Cunningham, Wendy Gomez, Carlos Ramos ADULTS AGED AGRICULTURAL LABORERS ANTHROPOLOGISTS CATEGORIES OF WORKERS CHILD LABOR DISABILITIES DISCRIMINATION ECONOMISTS EMPLOYMENT ENTREPRENEURS FAMILIES FLEXIBLE WORK HOURS HAZARDS HOME CARE ISOLATION LABOR MARKET LAWS LIVING CONDITIONS MALES MARITAL STATUS MARRIED WOMEN MIGRANTS MOTHERS MOTIVATION OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH OLDER PEOPLE OLDER WORKERS ORGANIZATION OF WORK PARTNERSHIP PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES PIECE WORK QUALITATIVE RESEARCH SELF-EMPLOYED SEX SOCIOLOGISTS UNEMPLOYMENT WORK AT HOME WORKERS WORKING POPULATION WORKING WOMEN WORKPLACE HOME BASED BUSINESSES UNSKILLED WORKERS CATEGORIES OF WORKERS WAGES LABOR FORCE EDUCATION MALE WAGES FEMALE LABOR Home-based work, defined as nonprofessionals who perform market work from their homes, is an increasingly recognized form of employment in Latin America. The majority of the research on this segment of the labor force relies on small sample, qualitative data, which find that home-based workers are women, children, and adults with disabilities with low skills who work long hours for low wages. The authors use a large random sample of control groups of non-home-based workers, including men, in their analysis and examine the home-based work sector in Brazil, Ecuador, and Mexico in 1999. Their results show that in all three countries, women are overrepresented among home-based workers, particularly older women, those with low levels of education, and those with children or spouses, unlike men for whom these factors do not matter. Female home-based workers earn 25-60 percent less an hour than do non-home-based working women and they work one-third to one-half as many hours each week. Home-based working men, on the other hand, earn 0-17 percent less than do men who do not work from their homes, and they only work 10 percent fewer hours a week. The wage and work hour gaps for women are largely related to marital status, not the presence of children, suggesting that simply being the primary caregiver in the household, regardless of the actual time constraints (children) is the key factor to differences between home-based working women and those who work outside of their homes. 2013-06-21T13:37:20Z 2013-06-21T13:37:20Z 2004-05 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/05/4261386/home-factory-floor-employment-remuneration-home-based-workers http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14105 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No.3295 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, D.C. Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Latin America & Caribbean |
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ADULTS AGED AGRICULTURAL LABORERS ANTHROPOLOGISTS CATEGORIES OF WORKERS CHILD LABOR DISABILITIES DISCRIMINATION ECONOMISTS EMPLOYMENT ENTREPRENEURS FAMILIES FLEXIBLE WORK HOURS HAZARDS HOME CARE ISOLATION LABOR MARKET LAWS LIVING CONDITIONS MALES MARITAL STATUS MARRIED WOMEN MIGRANTS MOTHERS MOTIVATION OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH OLDER PEOPLE OLDER WORKERS ORGANIZATION OF WORK PARTNERSHIP PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES PIECE WORK QUALITATIVE RESEARCH SELF-EMPLOYED SEX SOCIOLOGISTS UNEMPLOYMENT WORK AT HOME WORKERS WORKING POPULATION WORKING WOMEN WORKPLACE HOME BASED BUSINESSES UNSKILLED WORKERS CATEGORIES OF WORKERS WAGES LABOR FORCE EDUCATION MALE WAGES FEMALE LABOR |
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ADULTS AGED AGRICULTURAL LABORERS ANTHROPOLOGISTS CATEGORIES OF WORKERS CHILD LABOR DISABILITIES DISCRIMINATION ECONOMISTS EMPLOYMENT ENTREPRENEURS FAMILIES FLEXIBLE WORK HOURS HAZARDS HOME CARE ISOLATION LABOR MARKET LAWS LIVING CONDITIONS MALES MARITAL STATUS MARRIED WOMEN MIGRANTS MOTHERS MOTIVATION OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH OLDER PEOPLE OLDER WORKERS ORGANIZATION OF WORK PARTNERSHIP PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES PIECE WORK QUALITATIVE RESEARCH SELF-EMPLOYED SEX SOCIOLOGISTS UNEMPLOYMENT WORK AT HOME WORKERS WORKING POPULATION WORKING WOMEN WORKPLACE HOME BASED BUSINESSES UNSKILLED WORKERS CATEGORIES OF WORKERS WAGES LABOR FORCE EDUCATION MALE WAGES FEMALE LABOR Cunningham, Wendy Gomez, Carlos Ramos The Home as Factory Floor: Employment and Remuneration of Home-Based Workers |
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Home-based work, defined as
nonprofessionals who perform market work from their homes,
is an increasingly recognized form of employment in Latin
America. The majority of the research on this segment of the
labor force relies on small sample, qualitative data, which
find that home-based workers are women, children, and adults
with disabilities with low skills who work long hours for
low wages. The authors use a large random sample of control
groups of non-home-based workers, including men, in their
analysis and examine the home-based work sector in Brazil,
Ecuador, and Mexico in 1999. Their results show that in all
three countries, women are overrepresented among home-based
workers, particularly older women, those with low levels of
education, and those with children or spouses, unlike men
for whom these factors do not matter. Female home-based
workers earn 25-60 percent less an hour than do
non-home-based working women and they work one-third to
one-half as many hours each week. Home-based working men, on
the other hand, earn 0-17 percent less than do men who do
not work from their homes, and they only work 10 percent
fewer hours a week. The wage and work hour gaps for women
are largely related to marital status, not the presence of
children, suggesting that simply being the primary caregiver
in the household, regardless of the actual time constraints
(children) is the key factor to differences between
home-based working women and those who work outside of their homes. |
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Cunningham, Wendy Gomez, Carlos Ramos |
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Cunningham, Wendy Gomez, Carlos Ramos |
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Cunningham, Wendy |
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The Home as Factory Floor: Employment and Remuneration of Home-Based Workers |
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The Home as Factory Floor: Employment and Remuneration of Home-Based Workers |
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The Home as Factory Floor: Employment and Remuneration of Home-Based Workers |
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The Home as Factory Floor: Employment and Remuneration of Home-Based Workers |
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The Home as Factory Floor: Employment and Remuneration of Home-Based Workers |
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home as factory floor: employment and remuneration of home-based workers |
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World Bank, Washington, D.C. |
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2013 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/05/4261386/home-factory-floor-employment-remuneration-home-based-workers http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14105 |
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