ABSTRACT

The literature shows that a partner becoming unemployed leads to a reallocation of domestic work towards the newly unemployed partner, but that this reallocation remains gendered. In this paper, we explore the relationship between employment status and domestic work before and after the 2007 economic crisis in Spain, where the crisis had a dramatic impact: the unemployment rate rose from 9 per cent in 2006 to 20 per cent in 2010. We hypothesize that a crisis can exacerbate the effect of unemployment on domestic work. We analyse Spanish time-use data pre-crisis (2003) and during the crisis (2010), using ordinary least squares regressions and an interaction between the year of the survey and the employment situation of the household (N = 15,594594). Our results suggest that employment status affects unpaid work – both domestic chores and childcare – in a gendered way, but we find little support for a differential effect of the crisis.

摘要

文献表明，伴侣失业会导致家庭工作重新分配给新失业的伴侣，但这种重新分配仍然是性别的。在本文中，我们探讨了 2007 年西班牙经济危机前后就业状况与家政工作之间的关系，危机对西班牙产生了巨大影响：失业率从 2006 年的 9% 上升到 2010 年的 20%。我们假设危机会加剧失业对家庭工作的影响。我们使用普通最小二乘回归以及调查年份与家庭就业状况（N = 15,594594）。我们的研究结果表明，就业状况会以性别方式影响无偿工作——包括家务劳动和儿童保育——但我们几乎没有发现对危机的不同影响的支持。