eprintid: 10149456
rev_number: 7
eprint_status: archive
userid: 699
dir: disk0/10/14/94/56
datestamp: 2022-07-13 13:35:05
lastmod: 2022-07-13 13:35:05
status_changed: 2022-07-13 13:35:05
type: working_paper
metadata_visibility: show
sword_depositor: 699
creators_name: Xue, Baowen
creators_name: Lacey, Rebecca E
creators_name: Di Gessa, Giorgio
creators_name: McMunn, Ann
title: Does providing informal care in young adulthood impact educational attainment and employment? Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: G19
divisions: D12
divisions: B02
keywords: informal care; young adult carers, education, employment, UKHLS
note: This is an Open Access paper published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
abstract: Most research on the effects of caring has focused on older spouses or working-age carers providing care for older people, but providing care in early adulthood may have longer-term consequences given the importance of this life stage for educational and employment transitions. This study aims to investigate the impact of informal care in early adulthood on educational attainment and employment in the UK, and to test whether these associations differ by gender or socioeconomic circumstances. Data are from young adults (age 16-29 at first interview, n=27,209) in the UK Household Longitudinal Study wave 1 (2009/11) to wave 10 (2018/2020). Carers are those who provide informal care either inside or outside household. We also considered six additional aspects of caring, including weekly hours spent caring, number of people cared for, relationship to care recipient, place of care, age at which caring is first observed, and duration of care. Logistic regression was used to analyse the association with educational qualifications. Cox regression was used to analyse the association with employment transitions, and piecewise models were used to disentangle the short and long-term effects of caring on employment amongst carers. We found that young adult carers were less likely to obtain a university degree and to enter employment, and more likely to enter unemployment and exit from paid employment, compared to young adults who did not provide care. Caring in young adulthood may influence employment both immediately and in the longer term. In terms of care characteristics, weekly hours spent caring is negatively associated with the likelihood of obtaining a degree qualification and being employed. Caring at age 18/19 may have a stronger impact on obtaining a university degree than caring at other ages. Providing care after age 22 negatively impacted employment outcomes. Having a degree qualification and parental educational attainment buffered the negative impact of providing care on employment. Our results highlight the importance of supporting the needs of young adults providing informal care while making key life course transitions.
date: 2022-04-01
publisher: SocArXiv Papers
official_url: https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/vx5rd
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1949307
doi: 10.31235/osf.io/vx5rd
lyricists_name: Di Gessa, Giorgio
lyricists_name: Lacey, Rebecca
lyricists_name: Xue, Baowen
lyricists_id: GDIGE00
lyricists_id: RELAC84
lyricists_id: BXUEX15
actors_name: Di Gessa, Giorgio
actors_id: GDIGE00
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Charlottesville, VA, USA
pages: 30
citation:        Xue, Baowen;    Lacey, Rebecca E;    Di Gessa, Giorgio;    McMunn, Ann;      (2022)    Does providing informal care in young adulthood impact educational attainment and employment? Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study.                    SocArXiv Papers: Charlottesville, VA, USA.       Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10149456/1/young%20care%20and%20education%20and%20employment_29%20March.pdf