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Title: Caring for Children with Disabilities, Working, and Saving for Retirement over the Life Course
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Porterfield, Shirley Kwon, Eunsun |
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Caring for Children with Disabilities, Working, and Saving for Retirement over the Life Course Innovation in Aging 6, S_1 (November 2022): 806. Also: https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.2907 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Oxford University Press Keyword(s): Children; Disability; Labor Force Participation; Mothers; Pensions; Retirement/Retirement Planning Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper draws longitudinal data from the nationally-representative 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth for the years 1987 through 2018, using a life-course perspective and sequence analysis to identify long-term work patterns among women with children who do and do not have disabilities with an explicit focus on variations in occupational class and employment status. We found a distinctive pattern of long-term work history with five types: Full-time semi-professional to not working, Constantly not working, Semi-professional full time, Professional full time, and Not working to full time work. Results from regression analyses revealed variation in mothers' household financial preparation for retirement at late mid-adulthood. Compared with mothers who held professional full-time jobs throughout their adulthood, mothers who started full time jobs in middle age and have children with disabilities were less likely to have pension plans. Mothers of children with disabilities who left the labor force in early middle age tended to have lower retirement savings. Policy interventions to address these mothers' caregiving ability to stay engaged in the workforce and prepare for their retirement need to be explored. |
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Porterfield, Shirley and Eunsun Kwon. "Caring for Children with Disabilities, Working, and Saving for Retirement over the Life Course." Innovation in Aging 6, S_1 (November 2022): 806.
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