Caregiving to Elderly Parents and Employment Status of European Mature Women

Laura Crespo () and Pedro Mira
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The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, vol. 96, issue 4, 693-709

Abstract: We study the prevalence of informal caregiving to elderly parents by their mature daughters in Europe and the links between parental health, intense (daily) caregiving, and the employment status of daughters. We group data from SHARE into three country pools (North, Central, and South), which differ in the availability of public formal care services and female labor market attachment. There is a strong North-South gradient in the (positive) effect of parental ill health on the probability of daily caregiving. The loss of employment ascribable to daily informal caregiving seems negligible, except in southern countries. We use a time allocation model to provide a link to an empirical IV-treatment effects framework and to interpret our findings. © 2014 The President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Keywords: caregivin; elderly parents; Europe; parental health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I15 I31 J14 J21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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