Lifting the Burden

Løken, Katrine Vellesen; Lundberg, Shelly; Riise, Julie

doi:10.3368/jhr.52.1.0614-6447r1

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“…Løken, Lundberg, and Riise (2016) find that increased supply of formal care in some Norwegian municipalities reduced work absences of informal carers, particularly daughters. Only two studies, both focused on Japan, estimate the impact of LTCI on the labor supply of caregivers.…”

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confidence: 79%

“…Only two studies, both focused on Japan, estimate the impact of LTCI on the labor supply of caregivers. Løken, Lundberg, and Riise (2016) find that increased supply of formal care in some Norwegian municipalities reduced work absences of informal carers, particularly daughters. In contrast to Germany, the Japanese LTCI scheme provides only formal services and no cash allowances.…”

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confidence: 79%

“…8 It could be attractive for older caregivers, who would prefer to reduce labor supply, to turn to early retirement and exit the labor marked permanently (Meng, 2012;Van Houtven, Coe, & Skira, 2013;Løken, Lundberg, & Riise, 2016). Cash benefits were introduced in January, benefits in kind 6 months later in July.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We limit the sample to respondents aged between 35 and 65, who have a paid job, who are currently available for work or who are retired. 8 It could be attractive for older caregivers, who would prefer to reduce labor supply, to turn to early retirement and exit the labor marked permanently (Meng, 2012;Van Houtven, Coe, & Skira, 2013;Løken, Lundberg, & Riise, 2016).…”

Section: Samplementioning

confidence: 99%

“…html. 9 Similar to the studies ofLøken et al (2016) andFu et al (2017), we focus on co-residential caregivers since we have more information and data about this group. report that about 2.4% of the population aged 65 and older were employed in 1994.…”

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Labor supply effects of long‐term care reform in Germany

Geyer

Korfhage

2018

Health Economics

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Summary Many informal caregivers are of working age, facing the double burden of providing care and working. Negative labor supply effects can severely reduce the comparative cost advantage of informal over formal care arrangements. When designing long‐term care (LTC) policies, it is crucial to understand the effects not only on health outcomes but also on labor supply behavior of informal caregivers. We evaluate labor supply reactions to the introduction of the German long‐term care insurance in 1995 using a difference‐in‐differences approach. The long‐term care insurance changes the caregivers' trade‐off between labor supply and care provision. The aim of the reform was to strengthen informal care arrangements. We find a strong negative labor supply effect for men but not for women. We argue that the LTC benefits increased incentives for older men to leave the labor market. The results reveal a trade‐off for policy makers that is important for future reforms—in particular for countries that mainly base their LTC system on informal care.

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Labor supply effects of long‐term care reform in Germany

Geyer

Korfhage

2018

Health Economics

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Formal care of the elderly and health outcomes among adult daughters

Abrahamsen

Grøtting

2022

Health Economics

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With an aging population, the demand for care along with increasing health-care expenditures place an increasing burden on public finances. Informal care may substitute and complement publicly provided formal care (Bolin et al., 2008;Bonsang, 2009;Van Houtven & Norton, 2004). Therefore, informal caregivers constitute a critical national resource. Even in Norway-a country with a large public sector and one of the highest spending levels on publicly provided eldercare in Europe (Huseby & Paulsen, 2009)-the amount of man hours of informal care provided is estimated to be of the same magnitude as that of publicly provided formal care (Berge et al., 2014). Nevertheless, informal care may come at a cost for caregivers; care responsibilities can be a stressor as they often come in addition to other obligations such as work or household chores, or they can have

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Parent Care and Middle-Aged Women’s Employment

2021

Female Employment and Gender Gaps in China

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Does parent care influence Chinese women's participation in work? Using the longitudinal data of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey (CHARLS) from 2011 to 2015, this study investigates the influence of parent care giving on probability of work participation of women aged 45-69 in China.The random-effects model and the instrumental variables (IV) method are used to address the unobserved heterogeneity and other endogeneity problems. Although the results in previous studies that used younger and middle-aged women (i.e., women aged 18-52) indicate that parent care negatively affects women's labor supply, the results indicate that the probability of work participation is higher for the care-giving group. This can be explained by the fact that the positive effect (obtaining income effect) is higher than the negative effect (time-constraint effect). We also found that the influences of caring for parents on women's work participation differ by age and education group. KeywordsParent care • Work participation • Middle-aged women • China

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Lifting the Burden

Cited by 34 publications

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Labor supply effects of long‐term care reform in Germany

Labor supply effects of long‐term care reform in Germany

Formal care of the elderly and health outcomes among adult daughters

Parent Care and Middle-Aged Women’s Employment

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