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Unpaid Work, Paid Work, and Gender Inequality: An Analysis of Time Transfer Accounts for Turkey

Nazlı Şahanoğulları, Aylin Seçkin, and Patrick Georges

The National Transfer Accounts (NTA) methodology examines how people produce, consume, share and save by age. An extension of NTA is to add gender, which involves the creation of a time inputs account, the National Time Transfer Accounts (NTTA). Time inputs include non-monetized productive activity referred to as “household production". the methodology eventually permits a comprehensive representation of the total (market and non-market) gender-based production and consumption activities of people at different stages of the life-cycle. Turkey, one of the few emerging economies that is also a member of the OECD, offers an interesting case-study as the women labor force participation rate is one of the lowest among OECD countries. Our results show that women bear the overwhelming burden of the unpaid household work in a time use proportion (women-to-men) close to twice as much as the one observed for the OECD average. We estimate that the monetary value of women unpaid household production exceeds 29% of GDP, while the corresponding estimate for men is 8%.