Informal care and labour force participation among middle-aged women in Spain

Informal care is today the form of support most commonly used in Spain by those who need help in order to carry out basic daily activities. The potential labour opportunity costs incurred by Spanish informal carers have not as yet been quantified. In this paper we use the Spanish subsample of the Eu...

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Published in:SERIEs : journal of the Spanish Economic Association 2011-03, Vol.2 (1), p.1-29
Main Authors: Casado-Mar¸'n, David, Garc¸'a-Go'mez, Pilar, Lo'pez-Nicola's, A 'ngel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
attrition bias
Caregivers
ECHP
Econometrics
Economic Policy
Economic theory
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods
Economics
Economics and Finance
Employment
Erwerbstätigkeit
Familienpflege
Female employees
female labour force participation
informal care
Informeller Sektor
Labor economics
Labor force
Microeconomics
Original Article
panel data models
Public Finance
Spanien
Studies
Weibliche Arbeitskräfte
Women
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Summary:Informal care is today the form of support most commonly used in Spain by those who need help in order to carry out basic daily activities. The potential labour opportunity costs incurred by Spanish informal carers have not as yet been quantified. In this paper we use the Spanish subsample of the European Community Household Panel (19942001) to estimate an econometric model which we exploit to examine the effects of various types of informal care on labour market outcomes. Our results reveal the existence of non-negligible costs in terms of foregone employment for carers who live with the dependent person and/or provide more than 28 h of care/week. We also find that providing care for more than a year has negative effects on employment. Nonetheless, there seems to be no contemporaneous employment effects associated to either starting or ending an episode of care.
ISSN:1869-4195
1869-4187
1869-4195
DOI:10.1007/s13209-009-0008-5