Models of Earning and Caring: Trends, Determinants and Implications

After considering the basis of change in families, in the economy and in models of earning and caring, this paper updates the average hours of paid and unpaid work of women and men, based on the Statistics Canada time use surveys of 1986, 1992, 1998 and 2005. [...] The third section analyzes the determinants of these alternate models, and the fourth section considers some of the consequences of these models of the division of work. [...] B1I1 mplications of models of earning and caring The differential implications of the models across questions of stress, health, life satisfaction, belonging and social cohesion, show that the differences are typically small and there is no clear “winner” across the models of the division of paid and unpaid work. [...] The purpose of this paper is to follow the change in hours of paid and unpaid work, to look at the alternate models for the division of this work in families, along with the determinants and implications of alternate models of the division of work. [...] Implications of models on the well-being and integration of individuals Having studied the determinants of models of earning and caring, this section considers some of the implications of these models for the well-being and integration of individuals.