Relative Pay of Domestic Eldercare Workers in Shanghai, China.
Domestic services represent a growing sector of the economy in many high- and upper-middle income countries. Demand for domestic workers for eldercare is especially high as a result of the rapid aging of the population in these countries. However, domestic eldercare employment is characterized as a...
| Publicado en: | Feminist Economics Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 135 - 160 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=119783559&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 119783559 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 13545701 5B8 jtl: Feminist Economics issn: 13545701 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jan2017 vid: 23 iid: 1 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 119783559 10.1080/13545701.2016.1143108 ppf: 135 ppct: 25 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 157KB tig: atl: Relative Pay of Domestic Eldercare Workers in Shanghai, China. aug: au: Dong, Xiao-yuan Feng, Jin Yu, Yangyang affil: University of Winnipeg – Economics, 515 Portage Ave, WinnipegMB R3B 2E9, Canada Fudan University – Economics, 600 Guoquan Road, Shanghai200433, China Shanghai University of Finance and Economics – Public Economics and Administration, 111 Wuchuan Road, Shanghai200433, China su: Elder care Caregivers Labor supply Household employees Poor people sug: subj: Elder care Caregivers Labor supply Household employees Poor people keyword: China Domestic workers elder care J18 J31 J70 relative wage ab: Domestic services represent a growing sector of the economy in many high- and upper-middle income countries. Demand for domestic workers for eldercare is especially high as a result of the rapid aging of the population in these countries. However, domestic eldercare employment is characterized as a low-pay, low-status occupation worldwide. This article examines the relative pay of domestic eldercare workers in urban China and its underlying determinants. The estimates show that when holding observable individual characteristics constant, domestic eldercare workers earn 28 percent less than other types of workers in the service sector in Shanghai. The analysis attributes the low wages of eldercare workers to the fact that domestic paid work is culturally devalued, eldercare is performed by workers from the most marginalized segments of Shanghai's labor force, and the users of eldercare are relatively poor among the users of domestic services. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Feminist Economics is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Feminist Economics holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2017 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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