caa a22 4500 605450951 CHVBK 20210128105154.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10433-015-0349-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10433-015-0349-9 Full-time versus part-time employment: Does it influence frequency of grandparental childcare? [Elektronische Daten] [Martin Lakomý, Martin Kreidl] The impact of grandparents' employment on grandparental childcare has been examined repeatedly, but the findings have so far been inconsistent. We contend that these inconsistencies may have resulted from variations in model specification and crude measurement of employment status. Furthermore, we assert that earlier research overlooked gender differences in the ability to combine paid employment and caregiving as well as variations between maternal and paternal grandparents. We also question the causal interpretation of earlier findings that were based on cross-sectional data. We revisit the issue of the impact of the intensity of employment and analyze SHARE data from 19 countries. We find a significant positive association between part-time employment (as compared to full-time employment) and the frequency of grandparental childcare in a cross-sectional sample, but only among paternal grandmothers. Capitalizing on the panel component of SHARE, we use a within-person estimator to show that this association is unlikely to reflect a causal effect of the intensity of labor market attachment on the frequency of the care of grandchildren, but more probably results from omitted variable bias. We argue that grandparents most likely to provide (intensive) childcare are also most likely to adjust their employment in anticipation of caregiving. The paper documents the usefulness of role strain theory among grandparents and highlights that part-time jobs may reduce role conflict and may thus make grandparenting a more easily manageable experience. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015 Grandparents nationallicence Childcare nationallicence Part-time employment nationallicence Intergenerational Solidarity nationallicence Lakomý Martin Department of Sociology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic aut Kreidl Martin Department of Sociology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic aut European Journal of Ageing Springer Netherlands 12/4(2015-12-01), 321-331 1613-9372 12:4<321 2015 12 10433 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-015-0349-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-015-0349-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lakomý Martin Department of Sociology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kreidl Martin Department of Sociology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- European Journal of Ageing Springer Netherlands 12/4(2015-12-01), 321-331 1613-9372 12:4<321 2015 12 10433 SWISSBIB 354513648