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

Author:

Ehrlich Ulrike1ORCID,Möhring Katja2,Drobnič Sonja3

Affiliation:

1. German Centre of Gerontology (DZA), Berlin, Germany; Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), University of Bremen, Germany

2. School of Social Sciences and Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim, Germany

3. Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) and Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy (SOCIUM), University of Bremen, Germany

Abstract

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.

Funder

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Research Network on Pensions (FNA) of the Deutsche Rentenversicherung

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

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