Capacity or Necessity? Comparing the Socio-Economic Distribution of Productive Activities Between Italy and South Korea.

ABSTRACT: Much productive ageing research aims to identify the conditions under which older adults engage in productive roles within and outside the family. This study conceptualises two individual-level explanations for productive participation: capacity and necessity. I hypothesise that whether capacity or necessity prevails across different socio-economic groups depends on the degree of social protection guaranteed by pensions and long-term care systems, which varies across countries. Drawing on data from the SHARE and KLoSA surveys, this study compares socio-economic gradients in full-time work and informal caregiving across cohorts of men and women aged 50-75 in Italy and South Korea in 2006/07 and 2014/15. In Italy, where later-life social protection is generous, pr

SUBMITTER: Floridi G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9814022 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature