A dynamic analysis of informal care and employment in England

Michaud, Pierre‐Carl; Heitmueller, Axel; Nazarov, Zafar

doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2010.01.001

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“…Second, because unemployed or part-time workers have more time, they are more likely to become caregivers. 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.…”

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“…Heitmueller (2007) Michaud et al (2010), in an analysis that accounts for both timeinvariant heterogeneity and a dynamic care-employment for which causality is plausible in both directions, reveal a statistically significant correlation between a co-residential caregiver subsample and future occupation, even though they identify no overall effect.…”

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

2015

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E S ABSTRACTImpacts of Informal Caregiving on Caregiver Employment, Health, and Family *As the aging population increases, the demand for informal caregiving is becoming an ever more important concern for researchers and policy-makers alike. To shed light on the implications of informal caregiving, this paper reviews current research on its impact on three areas of caregivers' lives: employment, health, and family. Because the literature is inherently interdisciplinary, the research designs, sampling procedures, and statistical methods used are heterogeneous. Nevertheless, we are still able to draw several conclusions: first, despite the prevalence of informal caregiving and its primary association with lower levels of employment, the affected labor force is seemingly small. Second, such caregiving tends to lower the quality of the caregiver's psychological health, which also has a negative impact on physical health outcomes. Third, the implications for family life remain under investigated. The research findings also differ strongly among subgroups, although they do suggest that female, spousal, and intense caregivers tend to be the most affected by caregiving.JEL Classification: E26, J14, J46

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

2015

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“…Most of the existing studies on the relationship between informal care and employment-related outcomes do not differentiate 5 between care for older people and for disabled children or adults. The majority of these studies have been carried out in the United States (e.g., Ettner, 1996;Johnson & Lo Sasso 2000;Lilly et al, 2007;Pavalko & Artis, 1997;Wolf & Soldo, 1994;) and the United Kingdom (Carmichael & Charles, 1998;2003a;2003b;Carmichael et al, 2004;2010;Heitmueller, 2007;Heitmueller & Inglis, 2004;Michaud et al, 2010). In the UK, there are large cross-sectional differences between caregivers and non-caregivers in employment (e.g., Carmichael & Charles 1998;2003a) and wages (Heitmueller & Inglis, 2007).…”

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Informal eldercare and care for disabled children in the Nordic countries: prevalence and relation to employment

Jakobsson¹,

Kotsadam²,

Szebehely

2013

NORD J SOC RES

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“…Her results highlight existing labor market frictions for caregivers as their reduced labor supply in the US due to caregiving persists over time. Michaud et al (2010) also estimate a structural model in order to examine the dynamic effects of caregiving on employment. Yet the authors do not explicitly look at long-run effects, and the effects beyond three periods after caregiving are not reported.…”

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“…A further, if minor, contribution comes from the methodological side where we offer an identification strategy that relies on less functional form assumptions than the previous literature on short-run effects but also than Skira (2015) and Michaud et al (2010) who study more dynamic effects. 3 Our strategy rests on (sequential) conditional independence assumptions (CIA) which we justify by exploiting not only cross-sectional but also longitudinal information from our rich household survey, the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).…”

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