This paper explores informality in a high income country among women who, at least legally, can take on formal jobs. Specifically, we examine the determinants of paid domestic work in Israel through the lens of existing theoretical frameworks of informality. Using rich administrative data, we...

Increasing attention has recently been paid to the situation of domestic workers at European Union (EU) level. The European Parliament, social partners and stakeholders have called on the European Commission to improve the working conditions and social protection of domestic workers within the...

Die Versorgung pflegebedürftiger Menschen in ihrer eigenen Häuslichkeit ist ein aktuell wie zukünftig hochrelevantes Feld gesellschaftlich notwendiger Dienstleistungen. In der ambulanten Versorgung pflegebedürftiger Menschen werden haushaltsnahe Tätigkeiten und oft auch Betreuungsaufgaben...

The goal of this article is to explore and describe how social inequalities are replicated in the discourse of children who are cared for by child and adolescent domestic workers. The local context analyzed is the Mexican city of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, where child and adolescent...

The paper presents a snapshot of working conditions of domestic workers in New Delhi by collating quantitative and qualitative data gathered from 768 domestic workers and 242 employers in different localities in Delhi. Domestic work, despite being the third-largest source of employment after...

We experimentally study an intervention to reduce mistreatment of Filipino overseas domestic workers (DWs) by their employers. Encouraging DWs to show their employers a family photo while providing a small gift when starting employment reduced DW mistreatment, increased their job satisfaction,...

Maids, household appliances, and household time are key inputs to domestic production. This study uses data from Great Britain and France to analyze simultaneously their demands. Particular emphasis is placed on estimating the effects of resource prices: the market price for purchased inputs and...

We develop a macroeconomic theory of the division of household tasks between servants and own work and how it is affected by automation in households and firms. We calibrate the model for the U.S. and apply it to explain the historical development of household time use and the distribution of...

Migrant female domestic workers are subject to an overarching system of isolation, subordination, and exploitation due to the intersection of their gender, low education, and foreign-migrant status. This is a study of Indonesian female migrant domestic workers and their actual experiences in the...

Multinational companies are affected by tax reforms both at home and abroad. We study the effect of foreign corporate tax reforms on domestic employment and wages. To do this, we link the universe of Norwegian firm-level foreign direct investment (FDI) data with the universe of Norwegian...

This study explores how domestic worker organizations such as unions, non-profit organizations, coops, and immigrant rights groups are innovating in the context of the future of work. These organizations and the workers they represent are using innovations not only in organizing DWBOR campaigns...

Globalisation has resulted in the working population to have lesser means, education and skills and fewer productive opportunities resulting in their range of employment options to be brutally limited. Majority of the approximately 260.3 million people living below poverty work in the...

Using new evidence from servant contracts, 1600-1890, we estimate women’s wages in Japan. Women’s wages could only sustain 1.5-2 people up to 1900, the lowest recorded in the pre-industrial world. We then show the gender wage ratio was 0.7, higher than in Western Europe. Despite this, Japan...

Interaktionsarbeit ist bisher in der Arbeits- und Dienstleistungsforschung sowie in Public Health noch unzureichend mit Blick auf ihre gesundheitlichen Implikationen erforscht. Zudem mangelt es an Konzepten ihrer gesundheitsförderlichen Gestaltung. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird in diesem Beitrag...

Studies on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic have demonstrated that poor women have been the worst sufferers in terms of pay cuts and job losses. Women are the hardest hit also at the household level. They have to bear the brunt of constrained household budgets and have also encountered...

We experimentally study an intervention to reduce mistreatment of Filipino overseas domestic workers (DWs) by their employers. Encouraging DWs to show their employers a family photo while providing a small gift when starting employment reduced DW mistreatment, increased their job satisfaction,...

Neben der Erwerbsarbeit spielt die im Haushalt vorwiegend von Frauen geleistete private Care-Arbeit für die individuelle und kollektive Wohlfahrt eine herausragende Rolle. Die entgeltliche Auslagerung von Haushalts- und Sorgeaufgaben an haushaltsfremde Dritte wird zunehmend als ein Ausweg aus...

International migrant workers are vulnerable to abuses by their employers. We implemented a randomized controlled trial of an intervention to reduce mistreatment of Filipino women working as domestic workers (DWs) by their household employers in Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia. The intervention -...