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Work restrictions experienced by midlife family care-givers of older people
— evidence from six European countries | | Author(s) | Andrea Principi, Giovanni Lamura, Christina Sirolla |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 34, no 2, February 2014 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, February 2014 |
| Pages | pp 209-231 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Family care ; Middle aged ; Employment ; Hours of work ; Comparison ; Germany ; Greece ; Italy ; Poland ; Sweden ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | The phase between the mid-forties to retirement is a complex stage of life: responsibilities at work tend to become higher; changes in health may increase the physical burden of work; and the provision of informal care to ageing parents often overlaps with other family obligations, such as the support provided to children and/or grandchildren. This paper examines differences in work restrictions of midlife family carers of older people in terms of prevalence, gender and explanatory variables, in six European countries: Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Sweden and the United Kingdom. A sample of 2,897 carers aged 45-64 was extracted from the EUROFAMCARE (Services for Supporting Family Carers of Older People in Europe: Characteristics, Coverage and Usage) European project database, in order to analyse four possible work restrictions experienced in connection with the activity of care-giving: the reduction of working hours; giving up working; difficulties in career development; and forced occasional work. The results show that work restrictions are experienced differently between countries especially by women: they are reported to a higher degree in the United Kingdom, Germany and Greece, less so in Italy, and seldom in Poland and Sweden. Gender differences within countries are not so marked. Country differences are explained in the light of the different welfare regimes characterising the countries under investigation, in order to elucidate how policy makers may act to improve working carers' conditions through appropriate policies. |
| Accession Number | CPA-150514002 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: SE: WJ: WKD: 48: 767: 76X: 76V: 7AE: 76P: 8 |
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