- Title
- The impact of the provision of informal care on labour force participation behaviour
- Creator
- Watts, Martin
- Relation
- The Constraints to Full Employment or WorkChoices and Welfare-to-Work, 8th Path to Full Employment Conference and 13th National Conference on Unemployment. The Constraints to Full Employment: Fiscal and Monetary Policy, WorkChoices And Job Insecurity (Newcastle, N.S.W. 7-8 December, 2006) p. 254-267
- Relation
- http://e1.newcastle.edu.au/coffee/conferences/2006/index.cfm
- Publisher
- Centre of Full Employment and Equity, University of Newcastle
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2006
- Description
- With an ageing population and an increasing incidence of disability, the demand for informal care is increasing when the Federal Government is trying to raise labour force participation. In 2003 16% of the adult population provided informal care. However, ‘Caregiving and receiving is a relationship, providing worth and value to all participants’, so that public policy designed to support caring should not view it merely as a marketable service if not available informally. In this paper, we employ econometric techniques to explore the impact of different specifications of informal care on labour force participation behaviour. The paper then focuses on the interdependence of participation behaviour and the provision of informal co-residential care and how these decisions are conditioned by socioeconomic factors. Finally the implications of the results for the (re)design of public policy are explored.
- Subject
- labour force; disabilities; socioeconomic factors; public policy
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/935586
- Identifier
- uon:12093
- Identifier
- ISBN:192070177X
- Language
- eng
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