The Impact of Caring on Informal Carers' Employment, Income and Earnings: a Longitudinal Approach

Bittman, Michael; Hill, Trish; Thomson, Cathy

doi:10.1002/j.1839-4655.2007.tb00053.x

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“…Even though these effects remain small, however, the majority of studies do provide some evidence that caregivers are less likely to have a paid job (Carmichael & Charles 2003, Bittman et al 2007, Berecki-Gisolf et al 2008, Bolin et al 2008b, Carmichael et al 2010, Lilly et al 2010, Nguyen & Connelly 2014. For example, Bolin et al (2008b), using data from SHARE, identify a 10% increase in care hours associated with a 3.7% lower employment probability.…”

Section: Work Statusmentioning

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Impacts of Informal Caregiving on Caregiver Employment, Health, and Family

2015

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E S ABSTRACTImpacts of Informal Caregiving on Caregiver Employment, Health, and Family *As the aging population increases, the demand for informal caregiving is becoming an ever more important concern for researchers and policy-makers alike. To shed light on the implications of informal caregiving, this paper reviews current research on its impact on three areas of caregivers' lives: employment, health, and family. Because the literature is inherently interdisciplinary, the research designs, sampling procedures, and statistical methods used are heterogeneous. Nevertheless, we are still able to draw several conclusions: first, despite the prevalence of informal caregiving and its primary association with lower levels of employment, the affected labor force is seemingly small. Second, such caregiving tends to lower the quality of the caregiver's psychological health, which also has a negative impact on physical health outcomes. Third, the implications for family life remain under investigated. The research findings also differ strongly among subgroups, although they do suggest that female, spousal, and intense caregivers tend to be the most affected by caregiving.JEL Classification: E26, J14, J46

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2015

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“…It includes detailed analyses, demographic profiles and statistical presentations of carers and people needing care (e.g. Schofield et al, 1998;Young et al, 2006;Bittman et al, 2007;Yeandle and Buckner, 2007;Keeling and Davey, 2008;Fujisawa and Colombo, 2009;ABS, 2009;OECD, 2011;Carers UK, 2014;Vlachantoni et al, 2016) and evaluations and other assessments of policy and practice efforts to respond to the strains, needs and injustices some carers experience (Glendinning, 1983;Arksey, 2003;Victor, 2009;Yeandle and Wigfield, 2011;Moran et al, 2012); it often identifies the support needs of discrete groups (Glendinning et al, 2010;Hill et al, 2016). Some of this research focuses on care provided within a job or professional role (Dill and Cagle, 2010); on differences and inequalities (Abel and Nelson, 1990) and on the organisation, delivery and planning of publicly funded care (Naylor et al, 2011(Naylor et al, , 2015.…”

Section: Care and Caring: Themes And Focusmentioning

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Care and caring: interdisciplinary perspectives on a societal issue of global significance

Yeandle

Chou

Fine

et al. 2017

International Journal of Care and Caring

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IntroductionThe International Journal of Care and Caring (IJCC) commences publication with the present issue. In this opening editorial article we set out our vision for the new journal, which -as we will show -creates a timely and significant new space for critical engagement with global scholarship, policy and practice on care and caring. The article has three aims: to describe what will be distinctive and different about the International Journal of Care and Caring; to highlight our ambitions for it, including our determination that the new journal will have genuine global reach and international impact; and to explore some of the many different dimensions of research, scholarship and debate on care and caring which we hope to see further explored and developed in future issues of IJCC.As members of IJCC's Editorial Team, each of us has contributed to the founding concept for the journal, described here. We have been guided in this by our shared conviction that care and caring is a topic of huge and growing importance. We are persuaded, too, that within care and caring there is scope for significant theoretical and empirical development, and a real need for a new journal in which international scholarly debate on care and caring, based in sound research and scholarly endeavour, can emerge and thrive. We also believe that robust evidence and scholarship have the capacity to influence policy, practice and public discourse about care and caring, and in so doing to shape a more positive lived reality of caring relations and contexts around the world. 2These convictions underpin the vital and challenging agenda which lies before scholars and other researchers in the field of care and caring, in whichever part of the globe they and their studies are located. As we will explain, care and caring are central to human life and relations; associated with a wide range of emotions (spanning, for example, grief to joy, patience to exasperation, fear to security; and living and dying); and also -especially as the capacity to extend and save lives increases -have profound implications for the distribution of human, economic and other resources, in global, national and local contexts.Together we have sought international support for the idea of a new journal on care and caring across multiple disciplines, bringing the International Journal of Care and Caring to fruition as a new journal of the Policy Press. Giving it their strong support, distinguished scholars from diverse disciplines have highlighted the unique contribution IJCC can make, describing it as 'long overdue', 'exciting', 'timely and significant', and as a development which will 'bring a new level of scholarship and attention to issues facing our humanity for the future'. They also highlight its capacity to provide 'an important international and interdisciplinary evidence base'; to become 'essential reading' for 'academics, policy makers and practitioners interested in the complexities and nuances of care and caring'; and to 'create new synergies for the rising ...

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“…The median (IQR) stress level among care partners was 5 (3-7), with higher stress levels reported by women (5 [3][4][5][6][7]) than by men (4 [3][4][5][6], P < .0001). Overall health and stress levels correlated moderately (r = 0.35, 95% confidence interval = 0.30-0.40), with similar strengths of association when stratified by sex (data not shown).…”

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Care Partners and Multiple Sclerosis

Mckenzie

Quig

Tyry

et al. 2015

International Journal of MS Care

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Background: Caring for someone with multiple sclerosis (MS) can be a stressful experience that requires clinical attention. We investigated the impact of caregiver stress on the emotional well-being and physical health of the MS care partner using the North American Research Committee on Multiple Sclerosis (NARCOMS) Registry. Methods: Care partners of NARCOMS participants were invited to complete an online questionnaire that captured demographic characteristics, health status, caregiver burden as measured by the Zarit Caregiver Burden Interview, and impact of caregiving on employment. Results: Of 1446 care partners who agreed to participate, 1333 had complete data. Most were men (n = 825, 61.9%), with a mean (SD) age of 51.1 (11.2) years. The mean (SD) Zarit total score was 24.6 (15.1), placing the overall group in the mild caregiver burden range. Compared with male care partners, female care partners reported higher levels of burden and stress and more medication use for stress/anxiety and mood disorders. Male care partners were more likely to report physical concerns. Care partners of people with primary progressive MS reported greater perceived burden than did partners of people with secondary progressive MS and relapsing-remitting MS. More than 40% of care partners (559 of 1288) had missed work during the past year owing to caregiving responsibilities. Conclusions: Care partners of people with MS have substantial physical and psychological health concerns and experience an adverse impact on employment. Future research should evaluate how to mitigate the adverse effects of caregiving and evaluate positive aspects of the role.

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The Impact of Caring on Informal Carers' Employment, Income and Earnings: a Longitudinal Approach

Cited by 91 publications

References 11 publications

Impacts of Informal Caregiving on Caregiver Employment, Health, and Family

Impacts of Informal Caregiving on Caregiver Employment, Health, and Family

Care and caring: interdisciplinary perspectives on a societal issue of global significance

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