Informal adult care and caregivers' employment in Europe

Emanuele Ciani

Labour Economics, 2012, vol. 19, issue 2, 155-164

Abstract: I discuss instrumental variable estimates of the effect of providing unpaid adult care on the caregivers' probability of being employed, using eight waves of the European Community Household Panel. I focus on men aged 40–64 and women aged 40–59 from thirteen Member States, aggregated in two groups of Northern-Central and Southern countries. Previous papers with European data found that IV estimates are more negative than estimates assuming exogeneity of caregiving. I show that this difference is not robust once account is taken of time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity. Indeed, instruments turn out not to be needed, and the estimated effect is negative, but small in both groups of countries.

Keywords: Informal care; Employment; Endogeneity; Instrumental variables; Panel data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 C33 C36 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2011.12.001

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