Do carer tasks predict carer employment? Evidence from the Survey of Adult Carers in England

Candon, D ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6395-8828, Hewitt, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7036-3451, Liu-Smith, Y-L ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5277-0144 and Murphy, P ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8459-4448, 2024. Do carer tasks predict carer employment? Evidence from the Survey of Adult Carers in England. Social Policy and Administration, 58 (1), 122`-140. ISSN 0144-5596

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Abstract

Due to the large number of unpaid carers in England, there is an extensive body of research which examines the determinants of carers' employment. Despite this, little is known about the relationship between the specific tasks that carers perform and their labour supply. Using data from the Survey of Adult Carers in England, we examine the relationship between carer tasks and carer employment outcomes. We find that carers who perform tasks that are time-bound have a lower probability of working compared to carers who do not perform these tasks. Similarly, carers who perform shiftable tasks have a higher probability of working compared to carers who do not perform these tasks. If future social policy is to be designed to allow carers to also maintain their employment, then targeting services at the carer tasks which have the largest impact on employment needs to be taken into account.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Social Policy and Administration
Creators:	Candon, D., Hewitt, M., Liu-Smith, Y.-L. and Murphy, P.
Publisher:	Wiley
Date:	January 2024
Volume:	58
Number:	1
ISSN:	0144-5596
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1111/spol.12948 DOI 1790372 Other
Rights:	© 2023 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivsLicense, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Jeremy Silvester
Date Added:	11 Aug 2023 09:36
Last Modified:	08 Jan 2024 13:35
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/49539

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