The effect of informal care on work and wages

Houtven, Courtney Harold Van; Coe, Norma B.; Skira, Meghan

doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2012.10.006

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“…15 While this argument has also been made by Van Houtven et al (2013) in their analysis of the effect of caregiving on work for mature men and women in the U.S., Bobinac et al (2010) find a direct health effect of the declining health of a and formal care countries, I use a change in parental health interacted with the indicators for each country group as instruments, as a change in parental health may have a differential effect on daughters' caregiving decision based on the availability of formal care alternatives. 16 Which variables are included in X it depends on the outcome of interest.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…Infrequent caregivers, however, are sometimes found to be less likely to retire (Carmichael and Charles, 1998;Dentinger and Clarkberg, 2002). While most of the analyzed studies rely on cross-sectional data and are thus subject to above mentioned concerns, the results have been largely mirrored by recent longitudinal studies (Heitmueller, 2007;King and Pickard, 2013;van Houtven et al, 2013).…”

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Work and Well-Being of Informal Caregivers in Europe

Heger

2014

SSRN Journal

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Section: Empirical Strategymentioning

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Section: Background and Literaturementioning

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Work and Well-Being of Informal Caregivers in Europe

Heger

2014

SSRN Journal

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“…Since the residuals may be heteroscedastic or arbitrarily correlated over time, we use cluster-robust standard errors, clustered at the individual level. The estimator for the dynamic panel data model in differences (3) Bolin et al 2008;Ciani 2012;Heitmueller 2007;Van Houtven et al 2013). In our set of instrumental variables (z it ), we therefore include: (1) a dummy variable equal to 1 if the respondent's mother is dead in wave t, 0 otherwise; (2) a dummy equal to 1 if the respondent's father is dead in wave t, 0 otherwise; (3) a dummy equal to 1 if the respondent's mother (is alive and) has poor or very poor health in wave t, 0 otherwise; (4) a dummy equal to 1 if the respondent's father (is alive and) has poor or very poor health in wave t, 0 otherwise.…”

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“…Past work has used parental health, parental death, and distance between parents and children as instrumental variables for caregiving by the respondent (see, e.g., Bolin et al 2008;Van Houtven et al 2013). 3 In addition to these instrumental variables, we also use instruments that rely on higher-order moment conditions, following the methodology of Lewbel (2012).…”

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Informal Caregiving, Employment Status and Work Hours of the 50+ Population in Europe

Ciccarelli

Soest

2018

De Economist

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Using panel data on the age group 50-70 in 15 European countries, we analyze the effects of providing informal care to parents, parents-in-law, stepparents, and grandparents on employment status and work hours. We account for fixed individual effects and test for endogeneity of caregiving using moments exploiting standard instruments (e.g., parental death) as well as higher-order moment conditions (Lewbel instruments). Specification tests suggest that informal care provision and daily caregiving can be treated as exogenous variables. We find a significant and negative effect of daily caregiving on employment status and work hours. This effect is particularly strong for women. On the other hand, providing care at a weekly (or less than weekly) frequency does not significantly affect paid work. We do not find evidence of heterogeneous effects of caregiving on paid work across European regions.

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“…41,42 Recent studies suggest that sex differences in the economic impact of caregiving are also evident in that female care providers who remained working typically decreased their workload by 3 to 10 hours per week and faced a 3% wage cut, whereas there was very little impact of caregiving on men's working hours or wages. 43 To a further extent, the American Association of Retired Persons and the National Alliance for Caregiving estimated that approximately 44 million American adults provide care to ill or disabled adults in their home and community without compensation and that the market value of this care is approximately $306 billion annually. 6 Despite the pressures that many care partners experience to lessen work hours or even quit working entirely, approximately two-thirds of unpaid care partners continue to work full-or part-time jobs.…”

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Care Partners and Multiple Sclerosis

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Tyry

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International Journal of MS Care

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Background: Caring for someone with multiple sclerosis (MS) can be a stressful experience that requires clinical attention. We investigated the impact of caregiver stress on the emotional well-being and physical health of the MS care partner using the North American Research Committee on Multiple Sclerosis (NARCOMS) Registry. Methods: Care partners of NARCOMS participants were invited to complete an online questionnaire that captured demographic characteristics, health status, caregiver burden as measured by the Zarit Caregiver Burden Interview, and impact of caregiving on employment. Results: Of 1446 care partners who agreed to participate, 1333 had complete data. Most were men (n = 825, 61.9%), with a mean (SD) age of 51.1 (11.2) years. The mean (SD) Zarit total score was 24.6 (15.1), placing the overall group in the mild caregiver burden range. Compared with male care partners, female care partners reported higher levels of burden and stress and more medication use for stress/anxiety and mood disorders. Male care partners were more likely to report physical concerns. Care partners of people with primary progressive MS reported greater perceived burden than did partners of people with secondary progressive MS and relapsing-remitting MS. More than 40% of care partners (559 of 1288) had missed work during the past year owing to caregiving responsibilities. Conclusions: Care partners of people with MS have substantial physical and psychological health concerns and experience an adverse impact on employment. Future research should evaluate how to mitigate the adverse effects of caregiving and evaluate positive aspects of the role.

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The effect of informal care on work and wages

Cited by 338 publications

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Work and Well-Being of Informal Caregivers in Europe

Work and Well-Being of Informal Caregivers in Europe

Informal Caregiving, Employment Status and Work Hours of the 50+ Population in Europe

Care Partners and Multiple Sclerosis

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