Paid and unpaid work in Denmark – Towards gender equity

Statistical Analysis of Time Spent on Unpaid and Paid Work

Towards an integrated approach for the analysis of gender equity in policies supporting paid work and care responsibilities

This paper aims to develop a conceptual framework for analysing the degree to which public policies support gender equity in paid work and care. Combining the distinction between commodification and decommodification and the distinction between defamilialisation, supported familialism, and familialism by default our study identifies a number of relevant policies, ranging from services, leave en...

Commitment with or without a stick of paid work: Comparison of paid and unpaid workers in a nonprofit organization

The aim of this study is to investigate whether nonpaid volunteers have other reasons to be a member of an organization than paid workers. Volunteers are assumed to be hard to manage, because there is no ‘‘stick of a paid contract’’ to keep them in line. Therefore, we studied different dimensions (i.e., affective, normative, and continuance) of organizational commitment of volunteers and paid w...

Participation in paid and unpaid work by adults with rheumatoid arthritis.

OBJECTIVE To define determinants of participation in paid and unpaid work by adults with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS A survey was designed in consultation with working age (< 65 yrs) adults with RA and sent to 269 patients recruited through 5 rheumatology practices. Hours worked "last week" was the measure of participation in employment and unpaid work (household, home maintenance, car...

The Dynamics of Paid and Unpaid Activities Among People Aged 50–69 in Denmark, France, Italy, and England

In the context of the current policy emphasis on extending working lives, we investigate whether the relationship between participation in paid work, other formal, and informal activities among people aged 50-69 is complementary or competitive. We also investigate differences in associations between countries using comparable longitudinal data from Denmark, France, Italy, and England. We find p...