Care task division in familialistic care regimes : a comparative analysis of gender and socio-economic inequalities in Austria and Slovenia

Rodrigues, Ricardo (author), Ilinca, Stefania (author), Filipovič Hrast, Maša (author), Srakar, Andrej (author), Hlebec, Valentina (author)

Demographic aging has led to an increase in the number of people with multiple needs requiring different types of care delivered by formal and informal carers. The distribution of care tasks between formal and informal carers has a significant impact on the well-being of carers and on how efficiently care is delivered to users. The study has two aims. The first is to explore how task division in care for older people differs between two neighboring countries with different forms of familialism: Slovenia (prescribed familialism) and Austria (supported familialism). The second is to explore how income and gender are associated with task division across these forms of familialism. Multinomial logistic regression is applied to SHARE data (wave 6, 2015) to estimate five different models of task division, based on how personal care and household help are distributed between formal and informal carers. The findings show that the task division is markedly different between Slovenia and Austria, with complementation and supplementation models more frequent in Austria. Despite generous cash benefits and higher service availability in Austria, pro-rich inequalities in the use of formal care only are pervasive here, unlike in Slovenia. Both countries show evidence of pro-poor inequalities in the use of informal care only, while these inequalities are mostly absent from mixed models of task division. Generous cash transfers do not appear to reduce gender inequalities in supported familialism. Supported familialism may not fundamentally improve inequalities when compared with less generous forms of familialism.

• Language: English
• Keywords: social policy, elderly care, home care, informal care, inequalities, Austria, Slovenia
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.08.2022
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: Str. 1-18
• Numbering: Vol. 14, no. 15
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-138616
• UDC: 364
• ISSN on article: 2071-1050
• DOI: 10.3390/su14159423
• COBISS.SI-ID: 117139459
• Publication date in RUL: 03.08.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Sustainability
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 2071-1050
• COBISS.SI-ID: 5324897

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 03.08.2022

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: socialna politika, oskrba starejših, nega na domu, neformalna oskrba, neenakosti, Avstrija, Slovenija

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: J5-8235-2017
• Name: Exploring and understanding welfare state determinants of care provision for older people in the community in Slovenia and Austria