In a newly published study, “Wage Premium or Wage Penalty? Gendered Long-term Wage Development of Family Caregivers,” SCOOP colleagues Klara Raiber, Mark Visser, and Ellen Verbakel researched how family-related care duties like aged-care or childcare often have financial benefits for men which are not shared with women.
By comparing 19 years’ worth of wage data combined with caregiving episodes, Klara and her colleagues found that men’s wage growth improved after periods of caregiving or when they provided intensive care. Women’s wage development, however, was hampered by the time spent caregiving. The researchers thus concluded that ‘only men benefit from caregiving in terms of wage growth, not women.’
You can read the open-access article in Work, Employment and Society here.
