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Title: The Shifting Supply and Demand of Care Work: The Growing Role of People of Color and Immigrants

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Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: As the Baby Boom generation matures and current unmet child care needs remain constant, the United States faces a burgeoning crisis in the demand for care workers. The market has slowly but surely begun to adapt, seeing an overall growth of 19 percent in the number of care workers between 2005 and 2015, with most of that growth in adult care. The U.S. Department of Labor suggests that this will only grow further, projecting that the economy will add more than 1.6 million jobs in occupations related to adult care by 2024 (Rolen 2017). This report analyzes changing demographics and trends in earnings for two occupational groups, child care and adult care workers.1 Findings from the analysis show . . .

Url: https://iwpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/C470_Shifting-Supply-of-Care-Work-Immigrants-and-POC.pdf

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Authors: Hartmann, Heidi; Hayes, Jeffrey; Huber, Rebecca; Rolfes-Haase, Kelly; Suh, Jooyeoun

Publisher: Institute for Women’s Policy Research

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Other, Race and Ethnicity

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