Il lavoro adulto femminile tra due fuochi

Giuseppe A. Micheli and Alessandro Rosina
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Alessandro Rosina: Universita' Cattolica di Milano

Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, 2006, vol. 114, issue 4, 505-524

Abstract: Italy is among the OECD countries with both the highest ratios of older persons per worker and the lowest female participation rates. As the Mediterranean health-care system is based on the crucial support provided by the fifty year-old women in the family, the two processes are strictly intertwined. In this paper, the compatibility between the growth of female employment rate and the increase in the demand for the care of old people is analysed. The number of middle-aged women will diminish considerably in the next few decades, whereas the non-autonomous old population will grow exponentially. Some foreseeable scenarios are discussed using both macro-demographic sources and data from a recent Istat Survey. The empirical evidence emphasizes that adult women find themselves caught in between the requirements of the labor market on the one hand and family tasks on the other. Policy implications are finally discussed.

Keywords: ageing; female occupation; welfare state regimes; family care responsibilities; long-term dependency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J21 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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