Labour supply, health and caring: evidence from the UK

David Madden () and Ian Walker ()

No 199928, Working Papers from School of Economics, University College Dublin

Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of own-health,and that of others, on individual labour supply. We estimate a model of hours of caring and hours of work using a large micro dataset of UK households. We find that own ill health has a negative effect on wages for men but not women; being a carer has a negative effect on wages for women but not men; and that unobservables associated with caring are positively correlated with wages for men but not for women. We also find that own ill health has a strong negative effect on the labour supply of both men and women and a negative effect on their supply of caring. We also find that hours caring are responsive to wages for women.

Keywords: Labour supply; Health; Disability; Labor supply--Great Britain; Employees--Health and hygiene; Caregivers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999-11
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