Informal care and long-term labor market outcomes

Arbeitspapier

In this paper we estimate the long-run effects of informal care provision on female caregivers' labor market outcomes up to eight years after care provision. We compare a static version, where the average effects of care provision in a certain year on later labor market outcomes are estimated, to a partly dynamic version where the effects of up to three consecutive years of care provision are analyzed. Our results suggest that there are significant initial negative effects of informal care provision on the probability to work full time. The reduction in the probability to work full time by 4 percentage points (or 2.4 to 5.0 if we move from point to partial identification) is persistent over time. Effects on the probability of being in the labor force are quite small, however high care intensity strongly reduces the probability to be in the labor force eight years after the start of the episode. Short-run effects on hourly wages are zero but we find considerable long-run wage penalties.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-3-86788-752-6
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Ruhr Economic Papers ; No. 646

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Health: General ; Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions ; Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply
• Thema: informal care ; labor supply ; inverse probability weighting ; dynamic sequential models

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Schmitz, Hendrik ; Westphal, Matthias
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
• (wo): Essen
• (wann): 2016

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.4419/86788752
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/147034
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ