Time Poverty of the Working Generation

• URAKAWA Kunio

  九州大学

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 就労世代の生活時間の貧困に関する考察

Abstract

Many conventional studies of poverty have incorporated economic indicators, such as income, as criteria to ascertain whether certain conditions constitute poverty. However, both time and money are finite resources in life. Particularly working generation people must obtain a certain amount of both to maintain a decent living standard. Some minimum time must be spent for sleeping, leisure, and housework, including childcare, to reproduce labor power beyond the present generation. Estimations of time poverty emphasizing the working generation have been conducted actively in Western countries in recent years. Even in Japan, several studies have been conducted. This paper presents a review of time poverty studies in economically developed countries taking into consideration, percentages of households lacking minimum time for housework, and the policy implications for poverty reduction in working generations.Comparative analysis of conventional income-based poverty estimations and time-based poverty estimations reveals that conventional methods underestimate levels of poverty in households with two full-time workers and households with preschool children. Consideration of the time dimension is expected to produce more appropriate policy approaches to poverty reduction.

Journal

• Social Policy and Labor Studies

  Social Policy and Labor Studies 10 (1), 25-37, 2018-06-30

  Japan Association for Social Policy Studies

Keywords

• time poverty
• living hours

Details

• CRID: 1390003825204390144
• NII Article ID: 130007885307
• DOI: 10.24533/spls.10.1_25
• ISSN: 24332984
• ISSN: 18831850
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN
• Abstract License Flag: Disallowed