Work and Well-Being of Informal Caregivers in Europe

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New Evidence on Employment Effects of Informal Care Provision in Europe

“…These coefficients are not significant at conventional levels, which is why we do not interpret them quantitatively. The effects we find are larger than those reported in most of the previous literature; however, more recent studies similarly show large effects (Crespo and Mira ; Heger ).…”

“…There have been several studies on the relationship between informal care provision and labor force participation before (e.g., Ettner ; Heitmueller ; Bolin, Lindgren, and Lundborg ; Carmichael, Charles, and Hulme ; Leigh ; Lilly, Laporte, and Coyte ; Michaud, Heitmueller, and Nazarov ; Viitanen ; Fevang, Kverndokk, and Røed ; Kotsadam ; Van Houtven, Coe, and Skira ; Crespo and Mira ; Heger ; Schmitz and Westphal ), with findings reaching from very small to very large labor force reactions to care provision. Besides the ability to draw lessons from different institutional settings, our paper can contribute to the existing literature in three ways.…”

Long-Term Care Reform and the Labor Supply of Household Members: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

“…4 Skira (2015) estimates a dynamic structural model for the US and finds, in addition to a negative labor supply effect of care allowances, that care leave can strengthen carer's labor market attachment. Heger (2014) compares the labor supply of caregivers across different institutional settings using data from the Survey for Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). She finds negative effects on labor participation in countries with few formal care options, the effect is insignificant in countries with more generous care systems.…”

Long‐term Care in Denmark and Lithuania – A Most Dissimilar Case

“…Swartz (2013) also points out that 60-70 per cent of people who need LTC in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development area get this as informal provision from relatives. The consequences for those delivering informal LTC are thus also important as they can vary between increasing well-being to an increase in stress and dissatisfaction with life, and might also reduce the option for having employment (Heger 2014). In this article, LTC is understood as a more permanent need for care for people with disabilities and the elderly.…”