EDUCATION AND UNPAID WORK - SELECTED IMPLICATIONS FOR THE LABOUR MARKET

Education is often associated with human capital, its enhancement, and it is also considered to be an important assumption of employability in the labour market. Attention of economic theory focuses mainly on the positive benefits of education both for individuals and for society. However, there are only few studies focusing on the wider approach to education as a factor that can affect not only paid work and income, but also unpaid work. The main purpose of the contribution is to reveal a relationship between the education and unpaid work. Contribution is based on the data from the original field research, which was conducted in 2016 in Slovakia. Within the field research, we questioned 1743 households and 4818 individuals. Using the correlation analysis, we analysed relationship between the unpaid work and education, paid work, income, age groups and status of activity (employed/ unemployed). Results prove that unpaid work, its structure, and extent, are strongly influenced by economic factors as well as by non-economic motives. It seems to be necessary to consider unpaid work as a part of informal education. Our findings try to help policymakers to understand importance of the unpaid work for increasing preparedness of human capital for labour market.