Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/66000 
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Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Working Paper Series No. 2011-01
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
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 10% more hours of informal care, with effects concentrated among full-time workers providing small amounts of care. The wider workplace environment beyond formal flexible work also appears to facilitate 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.
Subjects: 
informal care
flexible work
matched employer-employee data
JEL: 
D13
J22
J29
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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