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Gender and the Total Work of Older Workers in Asia

Gender and the Total Work of Older Workers in Asia Download (1.72 MB)

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Report

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)


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This paper estimates that older people, especially older women, are doing a great deal of work caring for others.

In Asia, aging countries with slow population growth worry about a lack of workers in the future and see older people’s labor as a potential solution. However, this leaves out the work that many older people already do: unpaid care work.

Drawing on data from Bangladesh, India, Mongolia, and Thailand, estimates in this paper show that older people, especially older women, are doing a great deal of work caring for others. 

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Data and Methods
  • Results
  • Discussion
  • Data Appendix 

Published June 2023.