Married Women's Allocation of Time to Employment and Care of Elderly Parents

Married women, who have been shown in past research to exhibit relatively elastic labor supply, constitute a group of particular interest with respect to decisions concerning time spent in parental care and time spent in market work. This paper presents estimates of a simultaneous-equations model of...

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Published in:The Journal of human resources 1994-10, Vol.29 (4), p.1259-1276
Main Authors: Wolf, Douglas A., Soldo, Beth J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aged parents
Allocation
Care and treatment
Caregivers
Carers
Children
Daughters
Elder care
Elderly parents
Employment
Factors
Human resources
Married women
Older adults
Older parents
Parent care
Parents
Parents & parenting
Social research
Spouses
Time
USA
Women
Work and family
Working hours
Working women
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Summary:Married women, who have been shown in past research to exhibit relatively elastic labor supply, constitute a group of particular interest with respect to decisions concerning time spent in parental care and time spent in market work. This paper presents estimates of a simultaneous-equations model of employment, hours of work and the provision of care to an older parent. The results provide no evidence of reduced propensities to be employed, or of reduced conditional hours of work, due to the provision of parent care. These findings are consistent with other research on women's allocation of time to competing productive uses.
ISSN:0022-166X
1548-8004
DOI:10.2307/146140