• 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 Helping helpers? The role of monetary transfers in combining unpaid care and paid work 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

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

Caring for a friend or family member in need of care has been found to have negative consequences for wages. This study contributes to the literature by studying how three major life course factors, namely timing of first caregiving, duration of caregiving, and the number of caregiving episodes, help to explain the (hourly) wage penalty for informal caregivers (i.e., providers of health-related care to older or disabled people in the personal network). We used unique retrospective data of 1,417 informal caregivers in the Netherlands that map start and end dates of up to seven caregiving episodes. Findings showed that a higher number of caregiving episodes was related to a stronger wage penalty, whereas timing of first caregiving was not associated with a wage penalty. Opposite to our expectation, we found that the wage penalty decreased the longer someone cared, potentially even resulting in a wage premium for long-time caregivers. We conclude that applying a life course perspective is relevant when examining employment consequences of informal caregiving and that caregiving possibly fosters skills that are beneficial for employment careers in the long run.

How do the timing of the first caregiving episode, the duration of caregiving, and the number of caregiving episodes matter for the wage penalty for informal caregivers?

• Collected during project

• Questionaire

No

Retrospective informal care career - Main measurement

Background variables

Background variables

Background variables

• .dta

• Structured

• Dutch

01/01/2020

31/03/2020

Netherlands

01/01/2020

31/03/2020

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