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Care roles and employment decision-making: The effect of economic circumstance

This article uses data from a panel of Australian mature-age women to examine the effects of care roles on workers’ intentions to leave their jobs. We focus on how the employment effects of care roles can be shaped by the economic circumstances of the worker. We find that caring for an ill, frail or disabled family member has significantly lower effects on the turnover intentions of mature-age women with ‘poor’ (as compared to favourable) economic circumstances. We interpret this pattern as reflecting the financial costs associated with the provisioning of these types of family care needs.

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Additional Titles
Journal Of Industrial Relations

Key Information

Type of Reference
Jour
ISBN/ISSN
0022-1856
Resource Database
Miscellaneous
Publication Year
2015
Issue Number
5
Volume Number
57
Start Page
665-685