Publication type
Journal Article
Author
Publication date
September 15, 2012
Summary:
We use matched employer–employee data to explore the relationship between employees’ access to flexible working arrangements and the amount of informal care they provide to sick or elderly friends and relatives. Flexitime and the ability to reduce working hours are each associated with about 13% more hours of informal care. Workplaces do not respond to the presence of carers by providing flexible work, instead there is some underlying selection of carers into flexible workplaces. The wider workplace environment beyond formal flexible work may also facilitate care.
Published in
Scottish Journal of Political Economy
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 59 , p.361 -389
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9485.2012.00585.x
ISSN
369292
Subjects
Notes
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