Unpaid economic activities performed for the direct benefit of the household or for the households of relatives or friends on a reciprocal basis, including everyday domestic work and a great variety of self-provisioning activities and/or professional activity, whether as a sole or secondary occupation, exercised gainfully and not occasionally, on the limits of, or outside, statutory, regulatory or contractual obligations, but excluding informal activities that are also part of the criminal economy.
… differing participation rates of women and men in the care economy; what changes to budget allocations and related … and in the potential productive capacity of the economy as a result of addressing the underrepresentation of … DC. Elborgh-Woytek. K. et al. (2013) ‘Women, work and the economy: macroeconomic gains from gender equity’, …