• Care

• Spillovers

• Facilitating work life balance

Are the gender gaps in informal caregiving intensity and burden closing due to the COVID‐19 pandemic? Evidence from the Netherlands

Strategies of Informal Caregivers to Adapt Paid Work Testing the Informal Care Model: Intrapersonal Change in Care Provision Intensity during the First Lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic The wage penalty for informal caregivers from a life course perspective

Applying fixed-effects models using Waves 2 to 13 (2007–19) of the German Labour Market and Social Security panel study, we examine how unpaid caring changes labour supply and if monthly monetary transfers from the care recipient to the carer motivate a reduction in labour supply. We find that for both women and men, starting high-intensity caring increased the likelihood of becoming non-employed. Women were already likely to reduce working hours when starting non-intensive caring, whereas only intensive caring reduced working hours for men. Receiving low monetary transfers was a higher motivation to become non-employed for men, and receiving low monetary transfers only reduced working hours for women.

To what extent does informal caregiving negatively affect working hours and employment status, and if so, to what extent do these negative effects increase if caregivers receive direct monetary transfers from the care recipient? And: To what extent does the relationship between informal care and working hours and employment status as well as the influence of monetary transfers on these relations vary for women and men?

• External data

• Longitudinal survey

No

waves 2 to 13

• Structured

• German

01/12/2007

31/12/2023

Germany

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