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| Effect of caring for an older person on women's lifetime participation in work | | Author(s) | Amandine Jasmine Masuy |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 29, part 5, July 2009 |
| Pages | pp 745-763 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Women as carers ; Young adults [20-25] ; Mature adults ; Middle aged ; Employment ; European Union ; Longitudinal surveys ; Belgium. |
| Annotation | Using data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP), this paper examines the relationship between informal care and ending paid employment for Belgian working women of three age groups (up to 30, 31-49, and age 50+) in 1995. It explores the effect of being a carer for older adults on the probability of ceasing work. Most particularly, it focuses on the effect of the care intensity in the different age groups. Multivariate analyses for the entire sample of 24592 working women living in 11 European countries in the ECHP from 1995 to 2001 show that the simple fact of caring or not did not influence the probability of ceasing work, but that providing light care had a negative effect, suggesting the presence of a respite effect. As for the effects specific to each age group, caring did not have any effect on women aged 31-49, but for the other two age groups, women who provided light care were less likely to cease work than those not caring for an older person. In contrast, providing heavy care increased the probability of ceasing work, but only for those aged 50+. The findings suggest that studies of and policies related to informal care and its consequences should give more attention to age group differences. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090611005 A |
| Classmark | P6:SH: SD6: SDM: SE: WJ: WFC: 3J: 76E |
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