Health shocks and couples’ labor market participation: A turning point or stuck in the trajectory?

Riekhoff, Aart‐Jan; Vaalavuo, Maria

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113843

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“…We demonstrate that breadwinner status, young age at diagnosis and severity of cancer are all interlinked and the relative importance of these moderators is hard to distinguish due to statistical power issues. Nevertheless, our results show the importance of acknowledging linked lives between spouses and analyzing spouses together rather than as isolated units (Settersten, 2015;Riekhoff and Vaalavuo, 2021). This strategy is likely to shed light on inequalities both between and within families.…”

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confidence: 74%

“…A growing number of studies have considered the spillover effects of health shocks-usually between spouses. Using administrative data, Jeon and Pohl (2017), Anand et al (2022) and Jolly and Theodoropoulos (2021) found adverse effects on the labor supply of spouses caused by severe illnesses, while using retrospective survey data, Riekhoff and Vaalavuo (2021) found that the association between a health shock and employment trajectory of the individual depends also on the couple characteristics.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, our study is an important addition to the literature on health spillover effects. To our knowledge, this is the first time a couple framework has been used to study health spillover effects with the exception of Riekhoff and Vaalavuo (2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Gender inequality reinforced: the impact of a child's health shock on parents' labor market trajectories

Vaalavuo¹,

Salokangas²,

Tahvonen³

2022

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This article employs a couple-level framework to examine how a child’s severe illness affects within-family gender inequality in a Northern European context. We study the parental labor market responses to a child’s cancer diagnosis by exploiting an event study methodology and individual-level administrative data onhospitalizations and labor market variables for the total population in Finland. We focus on the differences in the effects by gender, breadwinner status, cancer severity and age of children. We find that child cancer has a negative impact on the labor income of both the mother and the father. This effect is considerably larger for women, and therefore leads to an increase in gender inequality on top of the well-documented motherhood penalty related to childbirth. However, mothers who are the main breadwinners in the family experience a smaller reduction in their contribution to household income. Additionally, older age of the child at cancer diagnosis and less severe cancer type potentially protect against gendered responses. These new insights provide evidence on gender roles when a child falls ill and show how child health affects gender inequality in two-parent households.

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Gender inequality reinforced: the impact of a child's health shock on parents' labor market trajectories

Vaalavuo¹,

Salokangas²,

Tahvonen³

2022

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“…This is the case especially in pension systems like the Finnish that include a minimum or guarantee pension which reduces the risk of falling into poverty after retirement. The lower marginal gains of continued working among the low-educated might also mean that they are more likely to retire in case a spouse falls ill or if they become grandparents [ 43 , 44 ].…”

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Educational inequalities in employment of Finns aged 60–68 in 2006–2018

Polvinen

Riekhoff²,

Nivalainen³

et al. 2022

PLoS ONE

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The aim of this study was to explore the employment of 60–68-year-old men and women by educational level over the period 2006–2018 and the magnitude of educational inequalities in employment. We used individual-level register data from Statistics Finland including all Finns aged 60–68 over a period of 13 years. In addition to calculating employment rates for men and women by educational levels, we estimated the relative index of inequality (RII) and slope index of inequality (SII) to measure the magnitude of relative and absolute educational inequalities in employment. The results show that the employment rates increased in all educational levels over the period 2006–2018. Relative educational inequalities in employment remained stable mainly among the 63–65-year-olds but decreased among the 60–62-year-olds and the 66–68-year-olds. However, absolute educational inequalities in employment increased in all age groups for both men and women.

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“…Previous research has found that one's health shock has a spill-over effect on spousal labour market outcomes (García-G ómez et al, 2013;Jeon & Pohl, 2017;Riekhoff & Vaalavuo, 2021). Hence, I focus on the gross household income (the natural logarithm and deflected to 2001 price) in Column 5, which examines the mitigating role of home-based work from a household perspective.…”

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confidence: 99%

Staying Healthy and Happy at Work

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I would like to express my gratitude to my wonderful friends in Groningen. In particular, I want to thank Lennart Stangenberg, my paranymph, lunchmate and former officemate. Finding someone who shares so many of my interests is fantastic. I enjoy all our lunch talks about sports, culture, current affairs and environmental issues. I also value all the help he has offered me in my daily life. I am thankful to Dr. Meng Han and Ziwei Rao for your continuing inspiration and encouragement. I also want to thank other former and current officemates, Jhordano

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Health shocks and couples’ labor market participation: A turning point or stuck in the trajectory?

Cited by 12 publications

References 36 publications

Gender inequality reinforced: the impact of a child's health shock on parents' labor market trajectories

Gender inequality reinforced: the impact of a child's health shock on parents' labor market trajectories

Educational inequalities in employment of Finns aged 60–68 in 2006–2018

Staying Healthy and Happy at Work

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