The intersection of caregiving and employment across the life course final report /

D., University of Guelph Sarah Lucas, B. A., University of Alberta January 31, 2013 The Intersection of Caregiving and Employment Across the Life Course Page 2 Abstract The purpose of this project was to better understand the interplay between individuals’ caregiving and employment across their life course and the cumulative risks to employment, financial security and well-being that caregivers fa [...] Page 3 The Intersection of Caregiving and Employment Across the Life Course Key Words Family/friend caregiving; caregiving and employment; caregiving across the life course; economic costs of care; care-related employment consequences; economics of aging; The Intersection of Caregiving and Employment Across the Life Course Page 4 Table of Contents Executive Summary. [...] Methods The conceptual framework for the study was the Taxonomy of Economic Costs of Care for Family/Friend Caregivers, developed as part of a companion project to this one, which lays out the main domains of employment consequences of care, and their most common predictors. [...] Objective 1: Explore the caregiving trajectories of Canadians describe the frequency, duration and timing of care episodes across the life course describe differences in frequency and duration of care episodes across the life course determine the predictors of the frequency and duration of care episodes across the life course 1.1.2. [...] Five samples from Cycle 21 were used to conduct multivariate analyses: Page 17 The Intersection of Caregiving and Employment Across the Life Course the full survey sample; a sub-sample of respondents of normal employment age (45-64); a sub-sample of respondents age 45-64 who reported that they were employed at the time of the survey; a sub-sample of respondents who reported that they had provided