Transitions into informal caregiving and out of paid employment of women in their 50s

Berecki‐Gisolf, Janneke; Lucke, Jayne; Hockey, Richard; Dobson, Annette

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.03.031

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“…Berecki-Gisolf et al (2008), however, can find no systematic difference between Australian female future caregivers in their 50s and their noncaregiver peers nor any significant effect of current employment on the likelihood of providing care.…”

Section: Work Statusmentioning

confidence: 73%

“…There is strong evidence, however, that caregivers are more likely to work fewer hours than noncaregivers (Lilly et al 2007), a finding supported by multiple recent findings of caregivers adjusting their work hours (e.g., Bittman et al 2007, Berecki-Gisolf et al 2008, Bolin et al 2008b, Leigh 2010, Kotsadam 2011, Meng 2012, Van Houtven et al 2013. In Europe, for instance, Bolin et al (2008b) find a working-caring-time elasticity for a SHARE sample of -0.26 when informal care is treated as exogenous.…”

Section: Work Hoursmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…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

confidence: 99%

“…For instance Berecki-Gisolf et al (2008), who find that middle-aged females are twice as likely as noncaregivers to reduce their labor force participation after becoming caregivers.…”

Section: Gender Differencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

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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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Section: Work Statusmentioning

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Section: Work Hoursmentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Work Statusmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For instance Berecki-Gisolf et al (2008), who find that middle-aged females are twice as likely as noncaregivers to reduce their labor force participation after becoming caregivers.…”

Section: Gender Differencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Some recent studies also argue that instrumental variables Panel data studies that use instrumental variables are marked in bold are unnecessary since caregiving can be considered as exogenous (Lilly et al 2010;Jacobs et al 2014). Longitudinal studies often look at transition probabilities (e.g., Berecki-Gisolf et al 2008), investigating whether individuals doing informal care and paid work at time t have a higher probability to leave the labor market before time t +1 compared to individuals who are working but do not give care in period t. Other longitudinal studies use panel data models with individual fixed effects, thus controlling for all time-invariant confounding factors. See, e.g., Heitmueller (2007), who also compares cross-sectional IV estimates with fixed effects (non-IV) panel data estimates.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Informal Caregiving, Employment Status and Work Hours of the 50+ Population in Europe

Ciccarelli

Soest

2018

De Economist

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Using panel data on the age group 50-70 in 15 European countries, we analyze the effects of providing informal care to parents, parents-in-law, stepparents, and grandparents on employment status and work hours. We account for fixed individual effects and test for endogeneity of caregiving using moments exploiting standard instruments (e.g., parental death) as well as higher-order moment conditions (Lewbel instruments). Specification tests suggest that informal care provision and daily caregiving can be treated as exogenous variables. We find a significant and negative effect of daily caregiving on employment status and work hours. This effect is particularly strong for women. On the other hand, providing care at a weekly (or less than weekly) frequency does not significantly affect paid work. We do not find evidence of heterogeneous effects of caregiving on paid work across European regions.

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Elder Care

Keating¹,

Donalds²

2015

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology

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Elder care is assistance provided to an older adult because of that person's chronic health problem or disability. Care tasks may include household work, indoor and outdoor home maintenance, banking and financial management, personal care, and care management. In developed countries, elder care is most often provided to those in advanced age as the onset of age‐related chronic illnesses is prevalent after the age of 75. Most people in residential (nursing home) settings are over the age of 80. Increasingly, elder care is also provided to people who have grown old with long term disabilities.

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Transitions into informal caregiving and out of paid employment of women in their 50s

Cited by 110 publications

References 14 publications

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

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

Informal Caregiving, Employment Status and Work Hours of the 50+ Population in Europe

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