unpaid work

collocation in English

meanings of unpaidand work

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unpaid
adjective
uk /ʌnˈpeɪd/ us /ʌnˈpeɪd/
An unpaid debt, tax, etc. has not ...
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work
noun
uk /wɜːk/ us /wɝːk/
an activity, such as a job, that a person uses physical or mental effort to do, usually ...
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Examples of unpaid work

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Prices of informal care were based on shadow prices for unpaidwork (meaning a standardized cost price based on general hourly wages).
Most start by understating the problem of remuneration, some going as far as volunteering for unpaidwork.
The valuation of time otherwise spent on leisure activities or unpaidwork is more difficult (9;20).
Yet future problems are predicted due to privileged occupational plans and exclusion of women's unpaidwork.
However, if one childminder simply replaces the unpaidwork formerly done by one parent there is no real gain.
The balance of women's paid and unpaidwork is fundamental in determining their lifetime earnings and pension entitlements.
It has taken long to incorporate gender, care and unpaidwork in welfare state analysis.
First, there is 'self-provisioning', which is the unpaidwork undertaken by household members for themselves and each other.
Indirect costs included the costs of production losses due to sick leave from paid or unpaidwork.
For unpaidwork, such as housework, costs were estimated at a shadow price of 8.30 (18).
In three brief sections, valuation of paid work time, unpaidwork time, and leisure are discussed.
However, neither offers a method of adjusting wage rates for time spent on unpaidwork or leisure.
Although it was important for women to earn a wage, for themselves or their families, housework as unpaidwork was no less significant for them.
It should be noted, however, that women's increasing participation in paid work has not necessarily reduced their load of unpaidwork.
Future government reform of the pension system should explicitly recognise both paid and unpaidwork activity.
For many in this group, their engagement with unpaidwork became more important at state pension age.
Drawing on their own experiences, they focused more on women's unpaidwork in the home than their productive work outside the home.
Its ideals of gender equality go beyond other models, in their relation to time and value for unpaidwork as well as paid.
Forgone unpaidwork and leisure time, however, are seldom estimated in economic evaluations, and methods for calculating forgone paid work differ.
The time allocated to informal care may otherwise have been invested in paid or unpaidwork and/or leisure.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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