 Heterogeneity in informal care intensity and its impact on employmentJournal of Health Economics, 2022, vol. 86, issue C Abstract: Working-age individuals are under growing pressure to contribute unpaid time to the care of elderly family members and friends. Existing work has generally found informal care to negatively impact labor market outcomes, an effect that varies considerably by caregiving intensity, as defined by average hours of care or co-residence with the care receiver. I construct a new measure of caregiving intensity based on the length of caregiving spells. To do so, I use the Longitudinal and International Study of Adults, which provides data on the monthly caregiving status of respondents over a six-year period. I investigate how this dimension of caregiving intensity intersects with better-known measures, and show that results relying on the latter conceal substantial heterogeneity in the impact of caregiving on employment. These differences are particularly important to understand disparities in the impact of caregiving on female and male employment. Keywords: Informal care; Employment; Retirement; Panel data (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jhecon:v:86:y:2022:i:c:s0167629622000662 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2022.102647 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Health Economics is currently edited by J. P. Newhouse, A. J. Culyer, R. Frank, K. Claxton and T. McGuire More articles in Journal of Health Economics from Elsevier |
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