This dissertation examines the effect of changes in the stock of human capital on the labor force participation decision of women aged 25-54. Without the option of homebased work, some women choose to leave the labor market and stay at home temporarily for family reasons. Working women realize that time out of the labor force could impose penalties on their work careers. This is because during the break, they do not accumulate any new human capital while the existing job skills continuously depreciate. Nowadays, home-based work becomes possible for many jobs because rapid development in personal computers and advances in information and communications technology have reduced employers’ cost of offering home-based work arrangements. Working women can resolve the time conflict between demand for paid work and family responsibility by working from home. In a previous study, the home-based work decision depends on the fixed cost of working and potential home production. Women who are disabled, have small children, or live in rural areas are likely to work from home because they have high fixed costs of working and high potential home production. However, none of the existing studies applies the human capital theory of labor supply to the home-based work decision. Using data on the female labor force from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) of housing units from the 2000 U.S. Census, I estimate a nested logit model to examine the effects of expected costs of non-participation, in terms of forgone earnings, forgone human capital accumulation and human capital depreciation, on women’s labor force participation decision. I find that, other things being equal, women aged 25 to 44 who have potentially high human capital accumulation and high human capital depreciation are likely to stay in the labor force. In the case that the value of their home time is so high that they choose to stay at home, they prefer to work for pay at home than to be out of the labor force.

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This study aims to formulate an understanding of the structuring of informal home-based work at the plane of interrelations between capitalism and patriarchy. It examines informal home-based work with an understanding based on two foci, which are market relations and traditional gender roles. It develops its own suggestions of conceptualisations, namely deliberate concealment and devalorisation by obscuring, building up these concepts abstractly in the theoretical sections and concretely the analyses.

隨著經濟、社會結構的轉變、產業結構之調整，雇主為了精簡組織、節省成本，將非企業之核心知識以外包的方式來節省成本；而科技的發展、網際網路的發達，越來越多的人選擇在家工作，使居家工作似乎成為一種時髦的工作型態。 居家工作之運用對雇主來說似乎為一項利多，但對於居家工作者而言，可能連帶引起許多問題，居家工作者通常居於薄弱的議價地位，他們的工作條件是否能及得上從事相同工作的一般勞工？將工作帶入家庭，工作與家庭生活是否能調和？本研究以使用資訊、科技等設備的居家工作者為研究對象，探討他們可能遭遇的工作條件與生活問題。 本研究之發現如下： 一、工作條件問題： 雇主對居家工作的看法（工作內容是否為主要業務）以及僱用關係均會對居家工作者的工作條件產生影響。僱用及非僱用關係的居家工作者均有需配合趕工（無加班費，且需在週末及夜晚趕工）、缺乏職業健康安全措施之保護等問題；另外非僱用關係居家工作者與委託者大部分以口頭約定工作，使得工作內容不明確，致工作來源、工作量、工作條件不穩定，且在社會安全制度適用上困難、教育訓練機會缺乏。 二、生活問題： 工作與家庭生活結合易產生時間與空間的競合，以及角色的重疊容易將工作情緒帶入家庭，進而影響生活品質。其中居家工作者認為「時間配置」的問題，最易影響生活品質。 在家工作之後會減少與人群接觸的機會，大部分是以網路溝通取代面對面溝通，多少會與社會產生疏離。長時間工作會壓縮跟家人相處的時間，且趕工的壓力亦會影響生活品質。但居家工作者多願意配合趕工，也就是說他們的「工作投入」優先於「家庭投入」。 三、因應策略： 非僱用關係居家工作者的工作條件必須以書面記載，並詳列委託條件、雙方權益義務等。契約的格式必須統一規範，而不是由委託者片面決定。加強居家工作者自我健康管理的認知，落實居家工作者及其雇主之登記制度。政府應儘速規劃一套規範制度，避免居家工作成為雇主逃避責任的工具。 工作與生活界線之管理，工作應儘量與一般日常的活動切割，例如以不同的活動作為分隔（送小孩去保姆家後開始工作）、訂定工作時間表。而居家工作者本身必須具有良好的適應力，可以因應將工作帶入家庭產生的壓力，以及自我約束、自我激勵，不因干擾而影響工作品質。

Esta pesquisa investiga os determinantes e a evolução recente no Brasil do trabalho remunerado feminino exercido no próprio domicílio ou simplesmente trabalho domiciliar. Quase 10% da população feminina ocupada, aproximadamente 4,5 milhões de mulheres, tem esse tipo de ocupação. Constatando a inexistência de estudos sobre o tema com dados quantitativos abrangentes, a presente pesquisa utiliza informações da Pesquisa Nacional por Amostras Domiciliares (PNAD) de 1992 a 2005 para analisar como evoluiu a proporção de trabalhadoras domiciliares no total da população ocupada. As mais importantes hipóteses delineadas na literatura a partir de estudos de caso são discutidas pela confrontação com os dados. Sob a ótica da demanda por essa forma de trabalho, analisa-se os setores que mais fazem uso do trabalho domiciliar feminino e as mudanças nessa composição, bem como sua relação com as transformações no mundo do trabalho decorrentes da reestruturação empresarial. Quanto à oferta por trabalho domiciliar, investiga-se como atributos individuais e familiares afetam as chances da mulher estar nesse tipo de condição de ocupação. É debatido como as transformações na inserção produtiva feminina afetaram a importância relativa do trabalho domiciliar. Constrói-se um modelo Logit Multinomial no Stata a partir dos dados da PNAD para comparar como mudou no tempo o impacto de cada atributo sobre a probabilidade de que uma mulher seja trabalhadora domiciliar. / This research investigates the determinants and recent developments of female home-based work in Brazil. Almost 10% of the occupied female population, approximately 4.5 million women, has this kind of occupation. Noting the lack of studies on the topic with comprehensive quantitative data, the present research uses information from PNAD beginning on 1992 until 2005 to evaluate how the proportion of female home-based workers on occupied population evolved. The most important assumptions outlined in the literature from case studies are discussed by confrontation with the data. From the perspective of demand for this type of work, sectors that intensively use female home-based work are analyzed, as well as its relationship with the changes in the labor market resulting from firms restructuring. On the supply of home-based work, it is investigated how individual and family attributes affect the chances of a woman to be in this work condition. It is discussed how the changes on female\'s productive insertion affected the relative importance of home-based work. A Multinomial Logit model is built on Stata using the data from PNAD to compare how the impacts of each attribute on the probability of a woman being home-based worker changed over time.

Esta pesquisa investiga os determinantes e a evolução recente no Brasil do trabalho remunerado feminino exercido no próprio domicílio ou simplesmente trabalho domiciliar. Quase 10% da população feminina ocupada, aproximadamente 4,5 milhões de mulheres, tem esse tipo de ocupação. Constatando a inexistência de estudos sobre o tema com dados quantitativos abrangentes, a presente pesquisa utiliza informações da Pesquisa Nacional por Amostras Domiciliares (PNAD) de 1992 a 2005 para analisar como evoluiu a proporção de trabalhadoras domiciliares no total da população ocupada. As mais importantes hipóteses delineadas na literatura a partir de estudos de caso são discutidas pela confrontação com os dados. Sob a ótica da demanda por essa forma de trabalho, analisa-se os setores que mais fazem uso do trabalho domiciliar feminino e as mudanças nessa composição, bem como sua relação com as transformações no mundo do trabalho decorrentes da reestruturação empresarial. Quanto à oferta por trabalho domiciliar, investiga-se como atributos individuais e familiares afetam as chances da mulher estar nesse tipo de condição de ocupação. É debatido como as transformações na inserção produtiva feminina afetaram a importância relativa do trabalho domiciliar. Constrói-se um modelo Logit Multinomial no Stata a partir dos dados da PNAD para comparar como mudou no tempo o impacto de cada atributo sobre a probabilidade de que uma mulher seja trabalhadora domiciliar. / This research investigates the determinants and recent developments of female home-based work in Brazil. Almost 10% of the occupied female population, approximately 4.5 million women, has this kind of occupation. Noting the lack of studies on the topic with comprehensive quantitative data, the present research uses information from PNAD beginning on 1992 until 2005 to evaluate how the proportion of female home-based workers on occupied population evolved. The most important assumptions outlined in the literature from case studies are discussed by confrontation with the data. From the perspective of demand for this type of work, sectors that intensively use female home-based work are analyzed, as well as its relationship with the changes in the labor market resulting from firms restructuring. On the supply of home-based work, it is investigated how individual and family attributes affect the chances of a woman to be in this work condition. It is discussed how the changes on female\'s productive insertion affected the relative importance of home-based work. A Multinomial Logit model is built on Stata using the data from PNAD to compare how the impacts of each attribute on the probability of a woman being home-based worker changed over time.

Due to the COVID19-pandemic many companies and organisations in Sweden have changed their ways of working from location dependent to teleworking. It has been discussed if flexible working conditions benefits or disadvantages workers possibilities to balance work life and family life. Previous research show that women and men traditionally have been responsible for different parts of the unpaid work at home. Studies also show that women tend to spend more time on unpaid work than men. The purpose of this study is to examine if and how the increase of teleworking, as a result of the pandemic, is perceived to have changed the boundaries between work life and family life. The purpose is also to examine whether the experience of the conflict between work and family life has changed due to the pandemic. The aim of the study is also to examine if the distribution of unpaid work is perceived to have changed. The results of the study are based on the answers from qualitative interviews of four women and three men who were teleworking as a result of the pandemic. The results of the study indicate that the responsibility for the boundaries between work life and family life has shifted from the employer to the employee. The conflict between work life and family life is expressed in different ways and has to some extent changed as a result of teleworking. When and how the unpaid work is performed has changed but the distribution between the sexes seems to be the same as before. The social aspect seems to be an important factor for the wellbeing and is lacking in this new way of working. / Till följd av COVID-19-pandemin har många företag och organisationer i Sverige ändrat sin verksamhet från platsberoende till arbete på distans. Det har diskuterats huruvida flexibla arbetsförhållanden gynnar eller missgynnar arbetstagarens möjligheter att balansera arbetsliv och familjeliv. Tidigare forskning visar att kvinnor och män traditionellt sett har ansvarat över olika delar av det oavlönade arbetet i hemmet. Samtidigt visar studier att kvinnor lägger mer tid på oavlönat arbete än män. Syftet med denna studie är därför att undersöka om och hur det ökade distansarbetet till följd av pandemin upplevs ha förändrat gränsdragningen mellan arbetsliv och familjeliv. Syftet är även att undersöka om upplevelsen av konflikten mellan arbete och familj har förändrats till följd av pandemin. Syftet med studien är dessutom att undersöka om fördelningen av det oavlönade arbetet upplevs ha förändrats. Studiens resultat baseras på svaren från kvalitativa intervjuer med fyra kvinnor och tre män som arbetar på distans till följd av pandemin. Studiens resultat tyder på att ansvaret för gränsdragningen mellan arbetsliv och familjeliv har förflyttats från arbetsgivaren till arbetstagaren. Konflikten mellan arbetsliv och familjeliv tar sig i uttryck på olika sätt och har till viss del förändrats till följd av distansarbetet. När och hur det oavlönade arbetet utförs har förändrats, men fördelningen mellan könen verkar vara densamma som innan. Den sociala aspekten verkar vara en viktig faktor för välbefinnandet som saknas i och med det nya arbetslivet.

India is becoming one of the biggest garment producers in the world and at the bottom of the industry women can often be found working from their homes because of norms restricting them what to do and where to go. These women often work under middlemen who take advantage of their disempowerment. The well-known Indian trade union/social movement the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) established its producer-company Ruaab to eliminate the middleman and link the home-based workers directly with the fashion companies. This study investigates in what ways the women’s participation in the producer-company Ruaab impact their empowerment process. It is based on a two-month long field study in Delhi, India in which interviews were conducted with women working at three of Ruaab’s centers. Drawing on Mosedale’s definition and Rowland’s analytical framework, the thesis looks at if the women are empowered in three different dimensions: personal, close relations and collective. The results show no clear patterns of empowerment but that SEWA’s work improves many aspects of the women’s life, and that their work should be considered an enhancing part in the women’s empowerment process.

Le concept du Management de la Mobilité agit dans la perspective d’optimiser l’usage de l’offre alternative de mobilité existante et de la développer en créant les conditions favorables d’un changement de culture et de pratiques en matière de déplacements. Notre contribution à travers cette recherche a pour ambition d’éclaircir les bases de débat sur la pertinence des approches du Management de la Mobilité en les examinant de près. Il s’agit de cerner l’efficacité de ces approches, leur fonctionnement, ainsi que leurs apports et leurs limites.Partant de l'hypothèse que les pistes qui mènent à l'objectif de concrétisation d'une mobilité plus durable afin d'atteindre le « facteur 4 » sont multiples, notre démarche repose sur l'analyse de plusieurs terrains de recherche où on tentera de vérifier la pertinence et l'efficacité de l'approche du Management de la Mobilité à travers deux voies possibles de régulation des mobilités quotidiennes.Une première voie que nous l'appelons la « voie corrective » où Il s'agit d'influencer les choix individuels et même plus, des modes de vie entiers par la mise en route des processus de changement à travers des mesures incitatives. Une deuxième voie indissociable de la première, car elle accroit son efficacité et sa pérennité, est plutôt une « voie intégrative ». Pour explorer cette voie, notre recherche nécessite un travail de nature exploratoire pour déterminer les pré-conditions de réalisation du transfert modal afin d’augmenter le potentiel d'usage et la crédibilité des modes alternatifs. Ceci serait possible par l’anticipation des besoins de la mobilité à travers l’intégration du Management de la Mobilité dans le processus de planification urbaine. / The concept of Mobility Management aims to optimize the use of available and alternative mobility modes by providing and creating optimal conditions for travel patterns change. Our contribution through this research is to provide basis for discussion on the relevance of mobility management approaches by analysing them in depth. The research consists in clarifying the effectiveness of these approaches, the way they are implemented, their benefits and limits.Assuming that the ways to lead to more sustainable mobility and achieve the national target of reduction by a factor of four greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 are various, our strategy is based on the investigation of several research fields where we will attempt to validate the adequacy and the effectiveness of mobility management approaches through two assumed ways of mobility regulation. A first way, that we’ve called the « corrective way », consists in influencing individual travel choices by enacting behaviour change processes and implementing incentives measures. A second way which is inseparable from the first, because it increases its long term efficiency, is rather an « integrative way ». It requires for our research an exploratory method to set out pre-conditions for achieving modal shift and increasing potential use and credibility of alternative modes. This could be possible by anticipating travel demand through an integration of mobility management measures into urban planning process.

Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-04T12:36:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009 / No contexto da globalização, o trabalho domiciliar está incorporado ao processo brasileiro de reestruturação produtiva e necessita ser desvendado. Para ampliar esse conhecimento, realizou-se uma revisão integrativa da literatura nacional, por meio das bases de dados LILACS e SCIELO, relativa ao período de 2000 a 2009, sobre o trabalho domiciliar, as condições em que ele acontece e suas repercussões na saúde dos trabalhadores, com o propósito de contribuir para o desenvolvimento de ações de vigilância em saúde para esta categoria de trabalhadores. A amostra utilizada possui 11 trabalhos, de diversas regiões do país. O estudo evidenciou que tanto em metrópoles como em cidades de médio porte, ou mesmo em pequenas cidades da Zona Rural, os trabalhadores em situação de trabalho precário, incluídos aí os trabalhadores domiciliares, tiveram sua saúde afetada pelas condições em que executavam suas atividades. Observou-se que o trabalho domiciliar é fruto da exclusão social e nele encontramos diversos fatores de riscos para a saúde dos trabalhadores. De modo agravante esses fatores de riscos à saúde se estendem além dos próprios trabalhadores, atingindo seus familiares, particularmente idosos e crianças, considerados mais vulneráveis aos efeitos deletérios para a saúde, decorrentes da exposição a que estão sujeitos. Constatou-se a subtração de direitos fundamentais à dignidade da pessoa humana, a negação da equidade, da justiça e da cidadania. É importante ressaltar também que o trabalho domiciliar não deve ser visto como um fenômeno isolado; o mercado de trabalho absorveu essa modalidade de trabalho, promovendo a naturalização da sua precariedade, conformando-o como importante alternativa ao trabalho convencional. Os resultados sugerem que a relação entre trabalho e doença é um processo complexo e dinâmico e que o Sistema Único de Saúde, através das ações de vigilância em saúde dos trabalhadores, pode contribuir para melhorar ou minimizar estasituação. Embora o mundo do trabalho seja muito heterogêneo, há que se conhecer, discutir, refletir e buscar soluções viáveis nos diversos órgãos do governo, no sentido de resgatar o direito ao trabalho decente, à saúde, à proteção social, enfim, à dignidade dos trabalhadores que estão à margem da sociedade e invisíveis aos olhos do Estado. / In the context of globalization, the home-based work is incorporated into the Brazilian productive restructuring process and needs to be unveiled. Aiming to increase knowledge on the issue of home-based work, was held an integrative literature review of studies published in SciELO and LILACS databases, in Portuguese, in the years 2000 to 2009. The goal was to organize, to systematize and to analyze the scientific production on the home-based work, the conditions in which it happens and the impact on the workers’ health, with the objective of contributing for the development of a politics for the surveillance of home-based workers’ health. The sample consisted of eleven articles, from several areas of the country. The findings evidenced that, in a similar way despite of the size of the city, the workers in precarious labor conditions, including the home-based workers, had their health affected by the conditions in which they made their job. It was also observed that the home-based work, where we can find different risk factors for workers’ health, is a consequence of social exclusion. In an aggravating way, these risk factors extend to the workers’ families, especially elders and children, more vulnerable to the harmful effects. It was possible to verify the subtraction of fundamental human rights, the negation of equity, justice and citizenship. It’s also important to emphasize that home-based work should not be regarded as an isolated phenomenon; the labor market absorbed this form of work, promoting the naturalization of its precariousness, conforming it as an important alternative to conventional labor. The results suggest that the relation between work and health is a dynamic and complex process and the Unified Health System (SUS) may contribute, through surveillance actions for the home-based workers, to improve the scenery. Although the work’s world is very heterogeneous, we must know, discuss, reflect and search for feasible solutions in the various government agencies, in order to redeem the rights to a decent work, to health, to social protection, finally to dignity, to the workers that are on the fringes of society and invisible to the State’s eyes.