Informal parental care and female labour supply in Japan

Oshio, Takashi; Usui, Emiko

doi:10.1080/13504851.2016.1217303

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“…Second, although recent studies have started using longitudinal data to examine how caregiving affects employment with more elaborate estimates, these remain limited in number, and their findings have been mixed. For example, using the Panel Survey on Middle-Aged Persons, Fukahori et al (2015) found a significant negative effect of having a co-resident family member who needs care on married persons’ employment, while Oshio and Usui (2017), using the Japanese Study of Aging and Retirement, found that parental care in general has little impact on middle-aged women’s employment (see also Oshio & Usui, 2018). Ohtsu and Komamura (2012) found that having a co-resident parent who needs care has a more negative effect on the work status of married women for higher levels of disability in co-resident parents.…”

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Parental Caregiving and Employment among Midlife Women in Japan

Kikuzawa

Uemura

2020

Res Aging

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In this paper, we examine how parental caregiving affects women’s employment in Japan. Drawing on the 2005–2014 Longitudinal Survey of Middle-Aged and Elderly Persons, we estimate logistic regression models for the employment status of middle-aged women in various types of employment as a function of caregiving intensity to examine when and in what context caregivers’ employment may be at risk for Japanese women. The results showed that working women who began providing 5 or more hours of care per week were significantly more likely to leave their jobs than non-caregiving women; those who began providing fewer than 5 hours of care per week did not show this likelihood. Among women in regular employment, those who began to provide 5 or more hours of care per week and those who provided care in the previous year were more likely to stop working or change jobs than their non-caregiving counterparts.

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Parental Caregiving and Employment among Midlife Women in Japan

Kikuzawa

Uemura

2020

Res Aging

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“…As for Kan and Kajitani (), they find that while the LTCI program helps reduce the number of hours of caregiving among highly educated women, the reduction does not lead to an increase in their working hours. Finally, Oshio and Usui () find that elderly care provision has little impact on female labor supply after controlling for the endogeneity of caregiving or individual unobserved time‐invariant heterogeneity.…”

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Does providing informal elderly care hasten retirement? Evidence from Japan

Niimi

2018

Review Development Economics

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This paper examines the implications of providing care to elderly parents for adult children's retirement plans using micro data from a Japanese survey. We find no significant effect of caregiving on family caregivers’ planned retirement age if we do not take into account caregiving intensity but find a negative and significant effect on retirement plans for intensive caregivers, particularly among women. These findings suggest that relying on family members to provide elderly care can pose a serious challenge to the ongoing efforts of the government to promote the labor supply of women and the elderly as a way of addressing the shrinkage of the working‐age population in Japan. The estimation results suggest that ensuring access to formal care services can help family members reconcile their paid work with caregiving requirements, thereby alleviating the adverse effect of caregiving on their retirement plans. The results also suggest that the financial burden of formal care services could require caregivers to postpone retirement in some cases.

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“…Researchers examining a range of country cases have not found a consistent relationship between care burden and women’s engagement in paid work. Studies on the US and China have found a significant negative relationship between care and paid work (Ettner, 1996; Johnson and Lo Sasso, 2006; Liu et al, 2010), while work on other developed countries (Japan, Southern Europe) has failed to identify a significant relationship (Ciani, 2012; Oshio and Usui, 2017).…”

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“…Researchers studying the US have found that employment status can affect the decision to provide care (Ettner, 1996; Johnson and Lo Sasso, 2006), but in China and Spain researchers found no evidence of such reverse causality (Casado-Marin et al, 2011; Liu et al, 2010). Other researchers studying the issue in a set of European countries and Japan found that if the analysis controls for unobserved characteristics of the individual making the decision, this can account for the apparent reverse causality (Ciani, 2012; Oshio and Usui, 2017).…”

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Elder care and paid work: gender differences in the relationship between unpaid elder care work and employment in Bulgaria

Meurs

Giddings

2021

Journal of European Social Policy

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Care of elderly family members affects the welfare of the elderly and caregivers and has macroeconomic implications. In Eastern Europe, aging populations combined with under-developed care policy increase family care burdens, but the impact of care on labour force participation is understudied in this context. Using two waves of the Generations and Gender survey, we estimate the impact of care demand on paid employment in Bulgaria. We find that living with an elderly or disabled parent has a negative impact on employment for women and that this impact cannot be explained by reverse causality or unobserved individual characteristics. More developed care policy would benefit caregivers and would be likely to generate broader fiscal benefits.

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Informal parental care and female labour supply in Japan

Cited by 16 publications

References 6 publications

Parental Caregiving and Employment among Midlife Women in Japan

Parental Caregiving and Employment among Midlife Women in Japan

Does providing informal elderly care hasten retirement? Evidence from Japan

Elder care and paid work: gender differences in the relationship between unpaid elder care work and employment in Bulgaria

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