Demanda de trabajo del hogar en el Perú

The aim of this work is to analyze paid house-work (PHW) and its relation with the demanding family’s labor participation and, especially the women’s. Given that the majority of paid houseworkers are in the  urban sector, and that the house-work in the rural sector is different, weonly analyze the PHW in the urban sector. We use the data from the Encuesta Nacional de Uso del Tiempo (ENNUT) and from the Encuesta Nacional de Hogares (ENAHO), for the year 2010, and we find that while the families with larger income demand the majority of the “live-in” PHW, those families with younger heads of household demand preferably “live-out” PHW. By means of Binomial and Multinomial Logit estimations we find that the labor and non-labor income from the head of household and the spouse have a positive effect on the probability of demanding PHW. We also found that the marginal effect of the spouse’s income over thedemand of “live-out” PHW is greater than the head of household’s income; it is the other way round with the demand for “live-in” PHW. We find that the probability of demanding PHW is lower if the head of household speaks a native language. Finally, the probability of  demanding PHW is higher when there are more children under 6 years old in the family, though the marginal effect is higher in the case of the demand for “live-in” PHW than for the “live-out” PHW.