Whereas the reconciliation of childcare and employment has been an topic of public debate and a subject for policymaking for quite some some decades now, the question how individuals reconcile paid employment and informal caregiving (mostly to elderly people) within their family or in their social networks, is starting to gain academic and public interest. My research aims to contribute to a better understanding of the arrangements of care chosen within and across family households, their link to paid employment and their consequences for health and well-being. Thereby, I study unpaid care in the form of care to older adults, to one's own children or grandchildren both across the life course and in later life. 

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Moreover, I take a gender-sensitive and social stratification perspective, asking how individuals of different sexes and from different socio-economic groups choose different caregiving arrangements, and whether and how they experience the caregiving consequences differently. Finally, the challenges of demographic ageing also have consequences for welfare states. Taking a comparative approache, I am interested in how different policy approaches to dealing with societal aging (e.g., pension policies, old age care policies), may moderate caregiving arrangements chosen, their consequences, and the social inequalities therein.

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Publications

 

Bertogg, Ariane, and Jason Settels. 2024. Dependent on one’s past? how lifetime employment shapes later life work-care reconciliation. Community, Work and Family. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13668803.2023.2229002

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Bertogg, Ariane, and Diana Galos. 2024. Double (Dis)Advantage: The Cumulative Role of Parental Resources and the Institutional Context in Intergenerational Time and Money Transfers. Social Forces. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soae019

 

Bertogg, Ariane, and Anja K. Leist. 2023. Gendered life courses and cognitive functioning in later life: the role of context-specific gender norms and lifetime employment. European Journal of Ageing. Doi: https://10.1007/s10433-023-00751-4

 

Bertogg, Ariane. 2023. Needs or Obligations? Childcare Policies, Family Norms, and Grandparents’ Labour Market Participation. Journal of European Social Policy, 33(1): 17-33. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/095892872211156

 

Ariane Bertogg, Tiziana Nazio, Susanne Strauss. 2021. “Work–family balance in the second half of life: Caregivers' decisions regarding retirement and working time reduction in Europe”. Social Policy and Administration, 55(3): 485-500.

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Bertogg, Ariane, and Susanne Strauß. 2020. Spousal care-giving arrangements in Europe. The role of gender, socio-economic status and the welfare state, in: Ageing & Society, 20(4): 735-758. Doi: https://10.1017/S0144686X18001320

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