Informal adult care and caregivers' employment in Europe

Ciani, Emanuele

doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2011.12.001

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“…3 For continental Europe, the effects of caregiving may not necessarily be the same since these countries have different welfare arrangements and the effect of caregiving on labour supply under different institutional settings is still ambiguous. Ciani (2012) finds small or insignificant negative effects on employment of co-residential caregiving, with a slightly larger effect in Southern European countries in some specifications, while Viitanen (2010) finds caregiving only significantly reduces women's employment probability in Germany. 4 Contrary, Crespo and Mira (2010) find a negligible effect of daily parental caregiving on employment in Northern and Central European countries but a 50% decline in the employment probability in Southern European countries.…”

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Work and Well-Being of Informal Caregivers in Europe

Heger

2014

SSRN Journal

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Work and Well-Being of Informal Caregivers in Europe

Heger

2014

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“…Since the residuals may be heteroscedastic or arbitrarily correlated over time, we use cluster-robust standard errors, clustered at the individual level. The estimator for the dynamic panel data model in differences (3) Bolin et al 2008;Ciani 2012;Heitmueller 2007;Van Houtven et al 2013). In our set of instrumental variables (z it ), we therefore include: (1) a dummy variable equal to 1 if the respondent's mother is dead in wave t, 0 otherwise; (2) a dummy equal to 1 if the respondent's father is dead in wave t, 0 otherwise; (3) a dummy equal to 1 if the respondent's mother (is alive and) has poor or very poor health in wave t, 0 otherwise; (4) a dummy equal to 1 if the respondent's father (is alive and) has poor or very poor health in wave t, 0 otherwise.…”

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“…The most advanced studies combine instrumental variables and panel data models; see, e.g., Ciani (2012) or Van Houtven et al (2013). The sample period and the nature of the sample vary widely across studies.…”

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Informal Caregiving, Employment Status and Work Hours of the 50+ Population in Europe

Ciccarelli

Soest

2018

De Economist

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Using panel data on the age group 50-70 in 15 European countries, we analyze the effects of providing informal care to parents, parents-in-law, stepparents, and grandparents on employment status and work hours. We account for fixed individual effects and test for endogeneity of caregiving using moments exploiting standard instruments (e.g., parental death) as well as higher-order moment conditions (Lewbel instruments). Specification tests suggest that informal care provision and daily caregiving can be treated as exogenous variables. We find a significant and negative effect of daily caregiving on employment status and work hours. This effect is particularly strong for women. On the other hand, providing care at a weekly (or less than weekly) frequency does not significantly affect paid work. We do not find evidence of heterogeneous effects of caregiving on paid work across European regions.

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“…Not only are these two lines of causality equally plausible, they are not mutually exclusive and can even occur simultaneously (Michaud et al 2010). However, several recent studies find little evidence for an endogenous caregiving decision and thus treat caregiving as exogenous, particularly when controlling for unobserved individual characteristics in panel data (see Bolin et al 2008b, Ciani 2012, Meng 2012, Van Houtven et al 2013, Nguyen & Connelly 2014. The instruments used in such research, however, often measure the health of potential care receivers, which should exogenously increase the demand for caregiving.…”

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Impacts of Informal Caregiving on Caregiver Employment, Health, and Family

2015

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Informal adult care and caregivers' employment in Europe

Cited by 57 publications

References 27 publications

Work and Well-Being of Informal Caregivers in Europe

Work and Well-Being of Informal Caregivers in Europe

Informal Caregiving, Employment Status and Work Hours of the 50+ Population in Europe

Impacts of Informal Caregiving on Caregiver Employment, Health, and Family

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