Long-term care reform and the labor supply of household members - evidence from a quasi-experiment

Konferenzbeitrag

Germany introduced a new mandatory insurance for long-term care in 1995. It replaced a system based on means-tested transfers. The new scheme made it easier for households to draw benefits and to organize informal care. We exploit this reform as a natural experiment and examine its effect on the labor supply of caregivers who live in the same household as the care recipient. We find strong negative results for male labor supply but not for women. We conduct a set of robustness tests and our results prove to be stable.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2015: Ökonomische Entwicklung - Theorie und Politik - Session: Labor Supply ; No. B18-V3

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Household ; Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Korfhage, Thorben ; Geyer, Johannes
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (when): 2015

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/113152
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET