Grandparenting and mothers’ labour force participation: A comparative analysis using the Generations and Gender Survey

The Effect of Grandparental Support on Mothers’ Labour Market Participation: An Instrumental Variable Approach

“…A similar result is found by the same authors (Dimova and Wolff, 2008) on the particular population of immigrants in France and by Aassve et al (2012) but only for some of the GGS countries.…”

“…As noticed by Aassve et al (2012), this approach might be problematic insofar as the estimated average impact might represent poorly the country-specific effects -with important consequences for the interpretation of the results in terms of policy implications. Similarly to Dimova and Wolff (2011), Aassve et al (2012) use a bivariate probit model for mothers' labour force participation and grandparental childcare using information on whether the respondent's mother is alive and the number of siblings the respondent has as instrumental variables.…”

“…Even though Heckman called attention to this fact in his pioneering paper on this field (Heckman, 1974), there are very few empirical studies analysing the effect of grandparental childcare in women's work decisions Wolff, 2008, 2011;Compton and Pollak, 2011;Aassve et al, 2012). Grandparental childcare is particularly common in the Mediterranean countries characterized by strong family ties (Dalla Zuanna, 2001).…”

Predictors of Quality of Life among Grandparents Raising Their Grandchildren: An Ecological Approach

“…In particular, child care is often left to the child's grandmother or grandmother-in-law rather than to the child care facilities or others because of the problems of economic burden and trust in caregivers [2]. It is reported that grandmother is providing quality service at a much lower cost than any proxy service, and plays an important role in women's employment [3]. According to the 2014 survey of Korean older persons, 21.8% of elderly people aged 65 and over living together with their married children said that the reason of living together with their married children is to provide their children with housekeeping/grandchild raising help, and there were some differences by regions (8.7~49.0%) [4].…”

Women's Access to Economic Opportunities in Serbia

“…However, the scope of the influence of informal childcare on the labor force participation ofmothers is not uniform across countries. Thus, Aassve, Arpino, and Goisis (2012) show that the care provided by grandparents has a significant influence on the decision ofmothers to enter the labor market in Bulgaria, France, Germany, and Hungary, but…”