Eldercare hours, work hours and perceived filial obligations

Fernanda Mazzotta (), Francesca Bettio and Valentina Zigante

Applied Economics, 2020, vol. 52, issue 21, 2219-2238

Abstract: In this paper, we take a fresh look at the magnitude of the trade-off between caring informally for a parent and paid work. We adopt a simultaneous approach with a primary focus on how hours of care are influenced by hours of work rather than the other way round. We also investigate the role that filial obligations play in choices of caring versus working. Using the SHARE data (2004 and 2006) we find that the elasticity of informal care hours in response to working hours is between −0.17 in the caregivers sample and −0.19 in the women-only caregivers sample; small but not negligible. Moreover, we find that a 10%increase in the index measuring the strength of filial obligations increases weekly hours of care by about two and a half hours.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2019.1687839

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