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100			_aHimmelweit, Susan
245			_aThe prospects for caring: economic theory and policy analysis
260			_c2007
300			_ap.581-99.
362			_aJul
520			_aThis paper examines three distinguishing features of caring: that it involves the development of a relationship, that caring responsibilities and needs are unequally distributed and that social norms influence the allocation of care and caring responsibilities, to draw out their implications for analysing caring and its movement between unpaid and paid economies. rising opportunity costs of caring are found to produce pressures experienced in different ways across different sectors of the economy. These, coupled with inequalities in care responsibilities and labour market opportunities, influence the movement of care between paid and unpaid economies. This analysis is then used to examine the likely evolution of caring norms and practices and how policy might intervene to avoid an uncaring future. - Reproduced.
650			_aSocial security
773			_aCambridge Journal of Economics
908			_aN
909			_a76128
999			_c76128 _d76128