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Getting By with a Little Help from Your Family: Toward a Policy-Relevant Model of the Household

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  • Jane Wheelock
  • Elizabeth Oughton
  • Susan Baines

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Recent decades have seen dramatic changes in the ways in which households in developed Western economies gain their livelihoods, with marked elements of a return to old ways of working. There has been a shift from reliance upon one family wage to the need for family employment as well as growing reliance on self-employment and small business. These changes mean that childcare for working parents, and the promotion of new small enterprise, are key areas of policy concern. Drawing on original English empirical research around both these themes, this article shows the ways in which UK households draw on redistribution between the generations as a v - v generally decommodified v - v contribution to livelihoods and "getting by." We argue that these results confound widely utilized models of how people behave, and take particular issue with how economists and policy-makers model the household and its boundaries as the institutional context for individual decisions.

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  • Jane Wheelock & Elizabeth Oughton & Susan Baines, 2003. "Getting By with a Little Help from Your Family: Toward a Policy-Relevant Model of the Household," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 9(1), pages 19-45.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:femeco:v:9:y:2003:i:1:p:19-45
    DOI: 10.1080/1354570032000057053
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    1. Na Ta & Zhilin Liu & Yanwei Chai, 2019. "Help whom and help what? Intergenerational co-residence and the gender differences in time use among dual-earner households in Beijing, China," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 56(10), pages 2058-2074, August.
    2. Tracey Warren, 2006. "Moving Beyond The Gender Wealth Gap: On Gender, Class, Ethnicity, And Wealth Inequalities In The United Kingdom," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 12(1-2), pages 195-219.
    3. Ian Greener, 2009. "Entrepreneurship and institution-building in the case of childminding," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 23(2), pages 305-322, June.
    4. Sheila Mammen & Daniel Lass & Sharon B. Seiling, 2007. "Labor Supply Decisions of Rural Low-Income Mothers," Working Papers 2007-12, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Resource Economics.
    5. Kevin Ward & Colette Fagan & Linda McDowell & Diane Perrons & Kathryn Ray, 2010. "Class Transformation and Work-Life Balance in Urban Britain: The Case of Manchester," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 47(11), pages 2259-2278, October.
    6. Na Ta & Mei-Po Kwan & Yanwei Chai & Zhilin Liu, 2016. "Gendered Space-Time Constraints, Activity Participation and Household Structure: A Case Study Using A GPS-Based Activity Survey in Suburban Beijing, China," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 107(5), pages 505-521, December.
    7. Mammen, Sheila & Lass, Daniel A. & Seiling, Sharon B., 2007. "Labor Supply Decisions of Rural Low-Income Mothers," Working Paper Series 7381, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Resource Economics.
    8. Saridakis, George & Marlow, Susan & Storey, David J., 2014. "Do different factors explain male and female self-employment rates?," Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 29(3), pages 345-362.
    9. Mann, Stefan, 2009. "The Nature of the Diversified Farm Household," Working Papers 56726, Agroscope Reckenholz Tanikon (ART).

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