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| Interactions between paid care-giving and paid work hours among European midlife women, 1994 to 1996 | | Author(s) | C Katharina Spiess, A Ulrike Schneider |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 23, part 1, January 2003 |
| Pages | pp 41-68 |
| Keywords | Women as carers ; Middle aged ; Employment ; Hours of work ; Correlation ; Europe. |
| Annotation | Data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) surveys of 1994 and 1996 are used to study the association between changes in care-giving and changes in weekly work hours. The sample comprises women aged 45 to 59 who participated in the labour force in at least one of the two years studied. Controlling for country variation, significant relationships were found between starting or increasing informal care-giving and changes in weekly working hours. Starting care-giving significantly reduces work hours for women in northern European countries (except Ireland). By contrast, women in southern Europe and Ireland respond to an increase in care-giving hours by a smaller increase or a higher decrease in work hours than care-givers. Thus, the impact of care-giving on adjustments of weekly work hours is asymmetrical, and differs between southern and northern Europe. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030210005 A |
| Classmark | P6:SH: SE: WJ: WKD: 49: 74 |
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