Generational Transfers of Unpaid Work and Non-Market Production in Households. The EU Perspective and Example of Poland

Marta Marszalek, SGH - Warsaw School of Economics

Introduction: Households are probably the most unobserved units of the whole economy. Childcare, adult care, and other domestic work reflect a real monetary value and investigate the intragenerational transfers between households, but the information of that impact to the national statistics is still invisible and outside the GDP. Intragenerational transfers between households, which are identified by satellite accounts, present the informal shifts of non-market production made for themselves at home. Material and methods: The total overview of household production and intragenerational transfers can be calculated and presented by Household Satellite Account. Satellite accounts are an additional comprehensive tool according to System of National Accounts (SNA) methodology proposed by UNECE. It generates the monetary value of domestic work and the shifts in families between households (e.g. households with children and households of grandparents). Results and conclusion: Total non-market household production amounts for less than 80% of the total household production in Poland and other EU countries, and it provides the additional 44% to GDP. The overview of market and non-market production generated by households provide the sufficient information for social and family politics how to manage the public and private transfers to the households to realize the sustainable development and society.

Keywords: Gender Dynamics, Economic Demography, Families, Unions and Households, Data and Methods

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