Social policies and intergenerational support in Italy and South Korea

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Figure 1. Exchanges of financial support* between parents aged 50+ and their children (Italy 2013; Korea 2012). Source: Author’s analysis of data from SHARE wave 5 (2013) and KLoSA wave 4 (KEIS, 2014). *SHARE codes financial transfers of €250 or above; in KLoSA, only financial transfers equal to or above 285,700 Won are considered (in 2012 €1 =|KRW 1143 using Purchasing Power Parity).

Table 1. Percentage of grandparents aged 50+ looking after grandchildren aged 0–10 without the presence of parents over the 12 months preceding the interview, by gender and age group (Italy 2013; Korea 2012).

	Grandfathers			Grandmothers
Age group	SHARE	KLoSA	Difference p-value	SHARE	KLoSA	Difference p-value
50–59	13.11	1.41	<.001	22.44	8.33	<.001
60–69	15.31	1.56	<.001	13.26	6.23	<.001
70–79	7.53	1.24	<.001	6.65	1.72	<.001
80+	3.01	0.31	.013	2.37	0.18	.002
Total	9.53	1.23	<.001	10.31	3.88	<.001
N	682	2116		1077	3275

Source: Author’s analysis of data from SHARE wave 5 and KLoSA wave 4.

Table 2. Percentage of parents aged 50+ receiving instrumental help and personal care from children in the 12 months preceding the interview, by gender, age group and ADL status (Italy 2013; Korea 2012).

Age group	Fathers			Mothers
	SHARE	KLoSA	Difference p-value	SHARE	KLoSA	Difference p-value
ADL status: no functional limitations with ADL
50–59	1.20	0.45	.183	2.96	0.41	<.001
60–69	1.95	0.20	<.001	4.38	0.51	<.001
70–79	4.85	0.70	<.001	13.58	2.59	<.001
80+	11.21	5.58	.051	25.62	10.29	<.001
Total	3.66	0.90	<.001	8.07	2.17	<.001
N	1146	2989		1462	3968
ADL status: one or more functional limitations with ADL
50–59	8.33	28.57	.243	13.04	28.57	.334
60–69	12.50	12.50	1.000	10.71	38.46	.014
70–79	13.95	23.33	.235	30.00	45.76	.057
80+	35.94	36.54	.947	57.26	48.44	.167
Total	22.52	26.57	.419	36.23	46.38	.025
N	151	143		276	207

Source: Author’s analysis of data from SHARE wave 5 (2013) and KLoSA wave 4 (KEIS, 2014).

Figure 2. Selected coefficients* from fully-adjusted logistic regressions for the probability of living with children, by gender (Italy 2013; Korea 2012). Source: Author’s analysis of data from SHARE wave 5 (2013) and KLoSA wave 4 (KEIS, 2014). *Additional controls (not shown): Parental education and working status, household wealth, household rural dwelling and presence of grandchildren. All estimates are reported in Supplementary Tables 4 and 5.

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