Work histories and provision of grandparental childcare among Italian older women

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• dc.contributor.author Zanasi, Francesca
• dc.contributor.author Arpino, Bruno
• dc.contributor.author Pirani, Elena
• dc.contributor.author Bordone, Valeria
• dc.date.accessioned 2023-05-10T06:26:28Z
• dc.date.available 2023-05-10T06:26:28Z
• dc.date.issued 2022
• dc.description.abstract This work investigates the link between grandmothers’ participation in the labour market during adult life (between ages 18 and 49) and their provision of grandparental childcare later in life. Our contribution is twofold. First, we consider the Italian case, that despite its reliance on informal care has been under-researched. Second, we test two contrasting arguments on the association between grandchild care provision and grandmother’s work histories. On the one hand, lifelong homemakers could be more family-oriented and more likely to provide grandchild care in later life. On the other hand, ever-employed grandmothers could be more likely to have employed daughters and provide grandchild care to support their working careers. With data from the Multipurpose surveys on Families and Social Subjects (2003, 2009, 2016), we estimate logistic regression models, considering various specifications of grandparental childcare, and measuring labour market attachment in three different ways (having ever worked, length of working career, employment interruptions for family reasons). Results show a dualism between grandmothers who ever worked and those who never did, with the former more likely to provide grandparental childcare, especially when parents are at work. Grandmothers who worked only a few years are more similar, in terms of grandchild care provision, to those who worked throughout their life, than to lifelong homemakers. This association is stronger in the South and North-West of Italy. Overall, we showed that care responsibilities are inextricable from labour market participation, as grandmothers who already juggled family and work are those supporting the most their adult children’s work–family reconciliation.
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• dc.identifier.citation Zanasi F, Arpino B, Pirani E, Bordone V. Work histories and provision of grandparental childcare among Italian older women. Genus. 2022;78:11. DOI: 10.1186/s41118-022-00158-6
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41118-022-00158-6
• dc.identifier.issn 2035-5556
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56763
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Springer
• dc.relation.ispartof Genus. 2022;78:11.
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• dc.subject.keyword Grandparents
• dc.subject.keyword Childcare
• dc.subject.keyword Female labour force participation
• dc.subject.keyword Work histories
• dc.title Work histories and provision of grandparental childcare among Italian older women
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