ABSTRACT
This chapter uses an extended engendered definition of living conditions that includes both domestic and care work. It explores how to express the link between working and living conditions. The chapter focuses on the usual economic perspective that sees labour as a commodity, it relates its price and quantity to other quantities that reflect living conditions directly. It encounters the difficulty of defining capabilities and functionings related to the labour market. In the waged labour market, the dominant purpose is production for profit, while in the household it is the sustenance and effective sustainability of a good life. The income gaps are due to persistent gender inequalities in the waged labour market and to the high proportion of unpaid work - very similar to national ones. Women's and men's time use and caring responsibilities are interrelated with paid work access conditions and with other well-being dimensions.
