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Effects of informal eldercare on female labor supply in different European welfare states

Andreas Kotsadam

No 353, Working Papers in Economics from University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics

Abstract: Using advanced panel data methods on ECHP (European Community Household Panel) data, female labor force participation at both the intensive and extensive margin is found to be negatively associated with informal caregiving to elderly. The effects of informal caregiving seem to be more negative in the Southern European countries, less negative in the Nordic countries, and in between these extremes in the Central European countries included in the study. That is, not only do women in some countries provide more care, the care they provide also has a stronger negative correlation with the probability of being employed and the number of hours worked. It is argued in this paper that a candidate explanation for the phenomenon of lower marginal effects in countries with more formal care and less pronounced gendered care norms has to do with the degree of coercion in the caring decision.

Keywords: Informal care; Female labor supply; European welfare states (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I11 I12 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2009-04-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-eec and nep-lab
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