ArticleInnovation in aging2022
Personal Care Aides as Household Employees and Independent Contractors: Estimating the Size and Job Characteristics of the Workforce.
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- Intersections of Personal Assistance Services for Rural Disabled People and Home Care Workers' Rights.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2022Review
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesAlthough studies pointed out that the number of personal care aides (PCAs) at risk of being in informal employment arrangements is sizeable, little is known about its size and worker characteristics. This study aimed to estimate the share of PCAs working as household employees or independent contractors. It also aimed to compare their basic job characteristics against the job characteristics of those working as agency and government employees. RESEARCH DESIGN AND
methodsUsing data from the 2014-2018 American Community Surveys, a sample of 43,287 PCAs working for pay in the home- and community-based service (HCBS) industry was identified, and their job characteristics-full-time weekly work (i.e., working at least 35 hours per week), year-round work (i.e., working at least 50 weeks a year), and annual gross earning-were analyzed by their employment arrangement.
resultsAnalyses found that (a) close to a quarter of aides in the HCBS industry work as household employees or independent contractors while their share in the workforce varies by state and that (b) the work hours and earnings of full-time year-round working household employees or independent contractors are DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS: The presence of household employees and independent contractors has important implications for PCAs' job characteristics and labor shortage in the U.S. home care industry. Considering the potentially negative consequences for both the aides' economic security and the quality of care that consumers can receive, attention should be paid to ways to bring the aides into a more formal employment arrangement.
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