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Juggling work and family life
— the pension penalty of caring | | 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 | 20 pp (SAGE discussion paper, no 12) (SAGEDP/12) |
| 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 | Family care ; Employment ; Men as carers ; Women as carers ; Pensions ; Comparison. |
| Annotation | The provision of family care and its impact on employment and subsequent pension entitlement for mid-life men and women is examined, using information from the Family and Working Lives Survey (1994/5). Combining paid employment and caregiving was not an option for a significant minority of women with caring responsibilities in mid-life. One in five mid-life women who had ever had caring responsibilities reported that upon starting caring, they stopped work altogether. A further one in five reported that they worked fewer hours, earned less money, or could only work restricted hours. Extension of employers' schemes to help workers balance paid work and family responsibilities would enable more carers to remain in the labour market, as would explicit carers' dimension within the new Working Tax Credit from April 2003. Such measures would ensure that carers who juggle low paid work and care are not penalised for working, and that their unpaid contribution to society is recognised. The research reported is part of the ESRC project, Family, Work and Quality of Life: Changing Economic and Social Roles funded under the Growing Older (GO) Initiative. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030210001 P |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: WJ: P6:SG: P6:SH: JJ: 48 * |
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