Informal care plays an important role in the provision of care. However, previous research has mainly focused on middle- or older-aged informal carers and less is known about informal care among young adults, its consequences on educational achievement and employment transitions and whether this varies across country contexts. Using data from the 2009–2018 waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study (N = 25,856) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (N = 16,666), we investigated the influence of informal care responsibilities of 17–29 year olds on their chances of achieving a university degree using logistic regression and employment transitions using Cox proportional hazard regression models. Our results revealed that young adulthood caring was negatively associated with the likelihood of obtaining a university degree, reduced the likelihood of entering employment and increased the likelihood of unemployment. These associations were more pronounced if people reported caring for more weekly hours (especially in the UK) or caring for longer durations (especially in Germany). The potential negative influence of caring in young adulthood on education was stronger for women than for men in Germany, and the influence of caring on entering unemployment was stronger for women than for men in the UK.

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英国和德国的青少年关爱会影响教育程度和就业吗？

非正式护理在提供护理方面发挥着重要作用。然而，之前的研究主要集中在中老年非正式照顾者，而对年轻人的非正式照顾、其对教育成就和就业转型的影响以及这是否因国家情况而异的情况知之甚少。使用 2009-2018 年英国家庭纵向研究的数据（氮= 25,856）和德国社会经济小组（氮= 16,666），我们使用逻辑回归研究了 17-29 岁青少年的非正式护理责任对其获得大学学位的机会的影响，并使用 Cox 比例风险回归模型研究了就业转型。我们的研究结果显示，青少年时期的照顾与获得大学学位的可能性呈负相关，降低了就业的可能性并增加了失业的可能性。如果人们报告每周照顾的时间更长（特别是在英国）或照顾的时间更长（特别是在德国），这些关联就会更加明显。在德国，青年时期的照顾对教育的潜在负面影响对女性来说比男性更大，而在英国，照顾对女性失业的影响比男性更大。