A Transaction Cost Approach to Outsourcing by Households

Bibliographic Data

ID4989907
AuthorsLiat Raz‐yurovich (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Liat Raz-Yurovich (0000-0003-2553-8934, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume40
Issue2
Pages293-309
Publication date2014-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePopulation and Development Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0098-7921 • E-ISSN: 1728-4457
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1728-4457.2014.00674.x
OpenAlexW1993976102
LanguageEN
Citations received35
References cited43

Below-replacement fertility and late marriage reflect, in part, the incompatibility of women's family and paid work roles. The outsourcing of childcare and housework to market and state service providers offers a strategy for reconciling work-family conflicts. By referring to the household as an organizational unit, I use the transaction cost approach (TCA) of organizational economics to discuss the factors that facilitate or impede outsourcing by households. In my analysis the frequency, specificity, and uncertainty level of the transaction, as well as normative and social beliefs, can facilitate or impede the household's decision to outsource. Monetary considerations, preferences, and government policies might moderate the effect of the transaction cost on this decision. The analysis further demonstrates that gender is an important factor, because transaction costs are often not distributed equally within households

Asset specificity · Business · Database transaction · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Industrial organization · Labour economics · Microeconomics · Normative · Outsourcing · Public economics · Search cost · Service (business) · Service provider · Transaction cost · Unit (ring theory) · Work (physics) · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Marketing · Work-Family Balance Challenges

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