The Impact of Female Caregivers' Employment Status on Patterns of Formal and Informal Eldercare

Doty, Pamela; Jackson, Mary E.; Crown, William H.

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“…While Wolf and Soldo (1994) find no effect of care on work, Ettner (1995Ettner ( , 1996 and Stern (1995) support earlier bivariate findings when they use instruments in their analyses. Other studies in this respect confirm a modest reduction in work hours and employment probability (Doty et al, 1998;Pezzin and Schone, 1999).…”

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Informal home care and labor-force participation of household members

Meng

2012

Empir Econ

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 68%

Informal home care and labor-force participation of household members

Meng

2012

Empir Econ

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“…The NLTCS surveyed frail elders and their caregivers, making it an inappropriate data set to investigate the process that leads certain family members to provide care and others to provide no care. Selection issues, then, may bias the findings in Doty, Jackson, and Crown (1998) about the relationship between employment and hours of assistance provided by primary female caregivers because the behavior of employed people who act as primary caregivers may not be typical of most workers. The NLTCS also provides little information on the human capital of caregivers, limiting its usefulness for labor supply studies.…”

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The Impact of Elder Care on Women's Labor Supply

Johnson¹,

Sasso²

2006

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Adult daughters traditionally have served as primary caregivers for frail unmarried adults, but the levels of care they have provided in the past may interfere with their growing work responsibilities. This paper examines the impact of time transfers to elderly parents on labor supply at midlife. Using a sample of women ages 55 to 67 in the Health and Retirement Study, we estimate panel data models of annual hours of paid work controlling for the endogeneity of time assistance to parents. The results indicate that time help to parents strongly reduces female labor supply at midlife.

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“…The increase in life expectancy (Kinsella, 1996), the rise in the number of women in the labor force (Doty, Jackson, & Crown, 1998), the trend of family members living farther apart (Crimmins & Ingegneri, 1990), and the verticalization of families (Bengtson, Rosenthal, & Burton, 1990) contribute to the availability of fewer spouse and especially adult-children caregivers providing care to family members. Thus, families are now turning to the next generation, grandchildren, for assistance with family care.…”

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Grandchildren's Perceptions of Caring for Grandparents

Fruhauf

Jarrott²,

Allen

2006

Journal of Family Issues

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Throughout the life course, all family members can expect to find themselves in some type of caregiving role. Individuals may find themselves providing care for a child or for an older family member who needs assistance. With the increase in life expectancy and the shrinking family size, individuals may find themselves spending time providing care to older family members. Despite the fact that caregiving related issues are well researched in the field of gerontology, the developmental experiences of grandchildren caregivers and the meanings of their caregiving experiences have not been explored in previous empirical work.Influenced by symbolic interactionism theory and the life course and life-span perspectives, the research questions that guide this study are: What is the nature of caregiving from the perspectives of grandchildren in the grandparent-grandchild relationship? What meanings do grandchildren give to the caregiving role? A qualitative study was conducted to examine the experiences of adult grandchildren (21-29 years old) who were currently providing some type of care-related activity for at least one grandparent. Face-to-face semi-structured interviews, lasting 30-80 minutes, with 17 grandchildren caregivers were conducted one time to examine the participants' caregiving experience. All interviews were completed at a location of the participants' choice. Interviews were tape-recorded and tapes were transcribed verbatim to aid in data analysis. Grandchildren caregivers' experiences illustrate variation with the reasons for providing care and the amount of time engaged in care related activities. Grandchildren were assisting with instrumental activities of daily living and activities of daily living.Reasons for providing care included grandparents' chronic illness or gradual aging, a crisis or event that left grandparents needing assistance, and because they had been providing care since they were young children. The amount of time grandchildren engaged in care related activities ranged from daily to several hours a week during summer and winter breaks. Grandchildren caregivers reported that family values, making iii grandparents happy, and preparing for the future were how they made sense of their role.Grandchildren experienced benefits and drawbacks from assisting grandparents and discussed how parents served as mediators and distracters to their caregiving role.Grandchildren caregivers exhibited the ability to adapt to caregiving situations and develop coping mechanisms that allowed them to be successful caregivers. Service professionals may want to include grandchildren caregivers in established support groups, caregiver programs, and enhance caregiver resources to support the generational needs of grandchildren caregivers in their 20s.iv To my grandparents, with love

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The Impact of Female Caregivers' Employment Status on Patterns of Formal and Informal Eldercare

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Informal home care and labor-force participation of household members

Informal home care and labor-force participation of household members

The Impact of Elder Care on Women's Labor Supply

Grandchildren's Perceptions of Caring for Grandparents

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