Gender differentiation in intergenerational care-giving and migration choices

Arbeitspapier

We weave together care-giving, gender, and migration. We hypothesize that daughters who are mothers have a stronger incentive than sons who are fathers to demonstrate to their children the appropriate way of caring for one's parents. The reason underlying this hypothesis is that women on average live longer than men, they tend to marry men who are older than they are and, thus, they are more likely than men to spend their last years without a spouse. Because it is more effective and less costly to care for parents if they live nearby, daughters with children do not move as far away from the parental home as sons with children or childless offspring. Data on the distance between the children's location and the parents' location extracted from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), in conjunction with data on selected demographic characteristics and institutional indicators taken from Eurostat, the OECD, and the World Bank, lend support to our hypothesis: compared to childless daughters, childless sons, and sons who are fathers, daughters who are mothers choose to live closer to their parents' home.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: University of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance ; No. 104

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Household Behavior: General ; Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
• Subject: Demonstration of care-giving across generations ; Gender differentiation ; Migration distance from the parental home

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Stark, Oded ; Curkowska-Torzewska, Ewa
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Tübingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
• (where): Tübingen
• (when): 2018

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.15496/publikation-21445
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/175348
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-dspace-800500
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET