Sozialpolitik in Deutschland

Boeckh, Jürgen; Huster, Ernst‐Ulrich; Benz, Benjamin

doi:10.1007/978-3-531-92726-8

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“…In 1995, the public long-term care insurance was introduced to cover the costs of those in need of long-term care. It is funded through social security contributions paid typically in equal shares by employers and employees, and benefits are typically provided as individual cash benefits, benefits-in-kind, or care home benefits for those who are in need of care according to an official classification scheme (Boeckh, Huster, & Benz, 2011; Rothgang, 2010). Compared with other European countries, Germany is on a mid-level with respect to the generosity of the public long-term care system (Schulz, 2012).…”

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What Comes after Caring? The Impact of Family Care on Women’s Employment

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Möhring

Drobnič

2019

Journal of Family Issues

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Previous research has shown that women providing family care tend to decrease paid work. We take the opposite perspective and examine how current and previous family care tasks influence women’s likelihood to (re-)enter employment or to increase working hours. Family care is defined as caring for an ill, disabled or frail elderly partner, parent, or other family member. Using German Socio-Economic Panel data, we apply Cox shared frailty regression modeling to analyze transitions (1) into paid work and (2) from part-time to full-time work among women aged 25–59. The results indicate that in the German policy context, part-time working women providing extensive family care have a lower propensity to increase working hours. When family care ends, the likelihood that part-time working women change to full-time does not increase. Homemaking women’s likelihood of entering the workforce is not influenced by either current or previous family care tasks.

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confidence: 99%