Caregiving to Elderly Parents and Employment Status of European Mature Women

Laura Crespo () and Pedro Mira ()
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Pedro Mira: CEMFI, Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros, https://www.cemfi.es

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Abstract: We study the prevalence of informal caregiving to elderly parents by their mature daughters in Europe and the effect of intense (daily) caregiving and parental health on the employment status of the daughters. We group the data from the first two waves of SHARE into three country pools (North, Central and South) which strongly differ in the availability of public formal care services and female labour market attachment. We use a time allocation model to provide a link to an empirical IV-treatment effects framework and to interpret parameters of interest and differences in results across country pools and subgroups of daughters. We estimate the average effect of parental disability on employment and daily care-giving choices of daughters and the ratio of these effects which is a Local Average Treatment effect of daily care on labour supply under exclusion restrictions. We find that there is a clear and robust North-South gradient in the (positive) effect of parental ill-health on the probability of daily care-giving. The aggregate loss of employment that can be attributed to daily informal caregiving seems negligible in northern and central European countries but not in southern countries. Large and significant impacts are found for particular combinations of daughter characteristics and parental disability conditions. The effects linked to longitudinal variation in the health of parents are stronger than those linked to cross-sectional variation.

Date: 2010-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-eur, nep-hea and nep-lab
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Journal Article: Caregiving to Elderly Parents and Employment Status of European Mature Women (2014)
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