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Parental Caregiving and Employment among Midlife Women in Japan.
- Source :
- Research on Aging; Feb2021, Vol. 43 Issue 2, p107-118, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- In this paper, we examine how parental caregiving affects women's employment in Japan. Drawing on the 2005–2014 Longitudinal Survey of Middle-Aged and Elderly Persons, we estimate logistic regression models for the employment status of middle-aged women in various types of employment as a function of caregiving intensity to examine when and in what context caregivers' employment may be at risk for Japanese women. The results showed that working women who began providing 5 or more hours of care per week were significantly more likely to leave their jobs than non-caregiving women; those who began providing fewer than 5 hours of care per week did not show this likelihood. Among women in regular employment, those who began to provide 5 or more hours of care per week and those who provided care in the previous year were more likely to stop working or change jobs than their non-caregiving counterparts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01640275
- Volume :
- 43
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Research on Aging
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 147950880
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027520941198