ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the impacts of the different models of subsidised home care and the cash-for-care schemes on women's incentive to care and on the features of the care labour market. Projections of the sharp increases in the demand for long-term care (LTC) have prompted the search for the new organisational solutions aimed at cost efficiency to ensure both availability of resources and long-term financial sustainability. The increase in female employment leads to the employment of more women in the care sector if public care policy tackles the issue of the trade-off between affordable market care and fair care pay and in the working conditions. Monetary transfers affect the care-employment trade-off through income and substitution effects. Cost considerations pushing towards encouraging and supporting a greater role of the family may run counter to other economic and social trends and goals pushing in the opposite direction.
