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| The absence of conflict between paid-work hours and the provision of instrumental support to elderly parents among middle-aged women and men | | Author(s) | Anne E van Putten, Jan Dirk Vlasblom, Pearl A Dykstra |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 30, part 6, August 2010 |
| Pages | pp 923-948 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/aso doi:10.1017/S0144686X10000127 |
| Keywords | Men as carers ; Women as carers ; Children [offspring] as carers ; Middle aged ; Employment ; Hours of work ; Correlation ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | This study assesses the relationship between the number of work hours and the provision of instrumental support to parents of 779 middle-aged women and men in dual-worker couples in the Netherlands. Using data from the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study collected during 2002-04, the authors estimate a simultaneous two-stage probit least squares model, which takes into account that the competing time and financial demands of a person's engagement in paid work and parental support are endogenous. They explicitly control for the effects of partners' earnings, housework and parent-support contributions, and of co-resident children's time demand and help with domestic tasks. Contrary to expectations, the results do not reveal a conflict between paid work and giving support to parents. Several possible explanations are discussed. The results emphasise the importance of the household context, in that the work hours of both women and men depend on other household members' activities and finances, as does men's provision of parent support. The striking loss of relationships between women's provision of parental support and any individual and contextual characteristic, demonstrates the persistence of gendered roles in family members giving support. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100719001 A |
| Classmark | P6:SG: P6:SH: P6:SS: SE: WJ: WKD: 49: 76H |
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