We propose an improved method to assess the economic value of unpaid housework and childcare. Existing literature has typically assigned a minimum, generalist or specialist’s wage, or the performer’s opportunity cost to the hourly value of these activities. Then it was used to calculate macro-level value based on the number of hours spent in this work. In this paper, instead of imputing an average or minimum wage for housework and childcare to determine a value to the work, we use the actual local wage rate requested for these services from providers on online platforms. Applying this method to Austrian Time Use Survey data shows that the value of unpaid childcare and housework, had it been paid, would be equivalent to about 22% of the 2018 GDP.

我们提出了一种改进的方法来评估无偿家务和育儿的经济价值。现有文献通常将最低，通才或专家的工资或表演者的机会成本分配给这些活动的每小时价值。然后根据工作所花费的小时数来计算宏级别的值。在本文中，我们没有使用家务劳动和托儿服务的平均或最低工资来确定工作价值，而是使用在线平台上提供商对这些服务所要求的实际本地工资率。将这种方法应用于奥地利时间使用调查数据显示，未付的育儿和家务劳动的价值（如果已付）将相当于2018年GDP的22％左右。