Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/259462 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Citation: 
[Journal:] Latin American Economic Review [ISSN:] 2196-436X [Volume:] 30 [Issue:] 1 [Article No.:] 3 [Publisher:] Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE) [Place:] Ciudad de México [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 1-25
Publisher: 
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE), Ciudad de México
Abstract: 
We analyze the relationship between sex-ratios in the region of residence, and the time devoted to paid and unpaid work by couples in Mexico (2002, 2009, 2014), Peru (2010), Ecuador (2012), Colombia (2012, 2017) and Chile (2015). We find that sex-ratios are negatively related to the time devoted by women to paid work in Ecuador, and positively related to the time devoted by men to paid work in Mexico and Chile. In Colombia, sex-ratios are negatively related to the time devoted by men to unpaid work, while in Mexico and Peru they are negatively related to the time devoted by women to unpaid work. These results illustrate the importance of studying this topic in countries where the evidence is scarce, mainly due to limitations in the data.
Subjects: 
Household
Sex-ratios
Labour supply
unpaid work
Latin America countries
JEL: 
D10
J22
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Document Type: 
Article

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