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Maria Stanfors. Foto.

Maria Stanfors

Professor

Maria Stanfors. Foto.

Caregiving time costs and trade-offs: Gender differences in Sweden, the UK, and Canada

Författare

  • Maria Stanfors
  • Josephine Jacobs
  • Jeffrey Neilson

Summary, in English

Population ageing is putting pressure on pension systems and health care services, creating an imperative to extend working lives. At the same time, policy makers throughout Europe and North America emphasize home care. Thus, the number of people combining caregiving responsibilities with paid work is growing. We investigate the conflicts that arise from this by exploring the time costs of unpaid care and how caregiving time is traded off against time in paid work and leisure in three distinct policy contexts. We analyze how these tradeoffs differ for men and women (age 50–74), using time diary data from Sweden, the UK and Canada from 2000 to 2015. Results show that women provide more unpaid care in each country, but the impact of unpaid care on labor supply is similar for male and female caregivers. Caregivers in the UK and Canada, particularly those involved in intensive caregiving, reduce paid work in order to provide unpaid care. Caregivers in Sweden do not trade off time in paid work with time in caregiving, but have less leisure time. Our findings support the idea that the more extensive social infrastructure for caring in Sweden may diminish the labor market effects of unpaid care, but highlight that throughout contexts, intensive caregivers make important labor and leisure tradeoffs. Respite care, and financial support policies are important for caregivers who are decreasing labor and leisure time to provide unpaid care.

Avdelning/ar

  • Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen
  • Centrum för ekonomisk demografi

Publiceringsår

2019

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

SSM - Population Health

Volym

9

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Other Social Sciences
  • Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy

Status

Published

Projekt

  • Longer working lives and informal caregiving: Tradeoffs and economic value
  • Longer working lives and unpaid caregiving: costs, conflicts and tradeoffs in a comparative perspective
  • Gästforskarvistelse vid Maryland Population Research Center (MPRC)

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2352-8273