Thinking about Welfare: Approaches to Time Poverty in Argentina.
Thinking about Welfare: Approaches to Time Poverty in Argentina.
Thursday, 10 July 2025: 11:18
Location: FSE001 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
Oral Presentation
Excess time in employment leads us to the notion of time-use poverty, which refers to the lack of access to temporal resources that affect the quality of life of an individual or a community. Unlike material poverty, which focuses on the lack of income or material resources, time-use poverty relates to the unequal distribution of time and how this affects well-being.
This form of poverty can manifest itself in a variety of ways, including lack of time for self-care, leisure, recreation, family time or personal development. For example, people who work long hours in low-paid jobs may experience time poverty because they have little time to rest, spend time with loved ones, or engage in activities that enhance their emotional and physical well-being.
There is a growing consensus in the international literature on the multidimensional nature of well-being, which has led to a questioning of the validity of traditional measures based solely on income. In addition to being unidimensional, these measures tend to focus on the household as the unit of analysis. However, this choice has been criticized for not adequately reflecting the complexity of individual experiences of well-being. Well-being is a broad concept that encompasses different aspects of people's lives and cannot be captured solely by indicating the extent to which people's well-being can be measured.
This form of poverty can manifest itself in a variety of ways, including lack of time for self-care, leisure, recreation, family time or personal development. For example, people who work long hours in low-paid jobs may experience time poverty because they have little time to rest, spend time with loved ones, or engage in activities that enhance their emotional and physical well-being.
There is a growing consensus in the international literature on the multidimensional nature of well-being, which has led to a questioning of the validity of traditional measures based solely on income. In addition to being unidimensional, these measures tend to focus on the household as the unit of analysis. However, this choice has been criticized for not adequately reflecting the complexity of individual experiences of well-being. Well-being is a broad concept that encompasses different aspects of people's lives and cannot be captured solely by indicating the extent to which people's well-being can be measured.
In this sense, one of the aspects that has received increasing attention in the analysis of well-being is the availability of time. The Levy Institute Measure of Time and Income Poverty (LIMTIP) methodology pioneered the introduction of the concept of "time poverty," which refers to the lack of sufficient time to perform both household and care activities or to earn an adequate level of income.