| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
Changing economic and social roles
— the experience of four cohorts of mid-life individuals in Britain, 1985-2000 | | Author(s) | Maria Evandrou, Karen Glaser |
| Corporate Author | ESRC Research Group Simulating Social Policy in an Ageing Society - SAGE, London School of Economics; Growing Older Programme |
| Publisher | ESRC SAGE Research Group, London School of Economics, London, 2002 |
| Pages | 21 pp (SAGE discussion paper, no 11) (SAGEDP/11) |
| Source | Available free of charge at: www.lse.ac.uk/depts/sage Anne Scott, ESRC SAGE Research Group, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. e-mail: a.scott@lse.ac.uk |
| Keywords | Middle aged ; Demography ; Living patterns ; Social roles ; Family relationships ; Informal care ; Employees ; Longitudinal surveys. |
| Annotation | The changes in role occupancy across four birth cohorts (ages 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, and 60-64) passing through mid-life over the period 1985-2000 are examined. The authors use data from the General Household Survey (GHS) to investigate the occupancy of four key roles: partner, parent, carer and paid worker. Their findings indicate that rising divorce has had little impact on the overall probability of living in a union during mid-life, with around four out of five women aged 55-59 in each birth cohort living with their spouse or partner. Also, a significantly lower proportion of successive cohorts are still living with children of any age during mid-life. The results clearly indicate that there has been a rise in the likelihood of caring in mid-life and an intensification of that care. Increasing proportions of women are working, and working full-time, in mid-life. Furthermore, being "caught in the middle", in terms of simultaneous employment and caregiving is an atypical experience. The research reported here is part of the ESRC project, Family, Work and Quality of Life: Changing Economic and Social Roles, funded under the Growing Older Initiative (GO). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030207004 P |
| Classmark | SE: S8: K7: TM5: DS:SJ: P6: WK: 3J * |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|